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This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a telegraph! Located in our Enfield Station, our telegraph is set up to demonstrate the use and purpose of a telegraph system. Our school groups sure do love it when our tour guides demonstrate Morse code using our telegraph. Our model operates off a 6v battery and […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a Disston-Mercury Two-Man Chainsaw! Purchased during WWII, is cost about $800 new. Its twin cylinders generate 11 horsepower and was used at a lumber mill at Boyd Lake. It’s chain and bar can pivot to allow cutting in either the horizontal or vertical plane. It is said […]

This week’s “Feature of the Week”, is Emergency Drinking Water. This 12 oz. can is marked, “Property of the US Government”. It was commonly distributed to aviators and military personnel. This can was distributed in 1954 with a 30 year shelf life. The Contact No. on the label is N383s-116A.

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is the “Little Skipper”. For several years, an empty space in the snowmobile section displayed a sign informing Museum visitors of its need for a child’s snowmobile. In 1997, having read the sign, Blair and Mary Ellen Frost donated their 1968 “Little Skipper”. It was manufactured by LORI […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a Child Wooden Shoe. At the end of WWII Europeans were desperate for necessities. The donor traded a pair of dungarees for the shoes with a woman on the beach in France in 1945. Wooden Clogs can be dated back to Europe in the1300s. Most commonly worn […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a Flexible Flyer! Built in the late 1920s, this flexible flyer No. 2 E sled was owned and used in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. This sled was made in Philadelphia. After being passed through generations it was donated to the museum in 1992. In 1889 Elizabeth Allen was […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is our Excelsior Motorcycle! This motorcycle, built in 1915 was purchased in Limestone, Maine in 1916. Restored in 1980 it was donated to the museum in 2000. It’s 61 cubic inch V-twin motor produced 7.5 HP. The Excelsior Supply Company of Chicago produced motorcycles from 1907-1931. In 1911 […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a Camper! This special camper is a pop-up style placed on a trailer for easy maneuvering. Built in 1925, it was originally sold by the Jones & Van Doran Motor Camping Outfitters in New York City sold for $348. Records indicate that it travelled over 1800 miles […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is a pair of WWII Aviator Glasses. These glasses, made by Bausch & Lomb were used by the United States Army Air Force and United States Navy. They are on display in our WWII military case along with their original leather case. Aviators, also referred to as, “pilot’s […]

This week’s “Museum Feature of the Week”, is the Cletrac Crawler! This feature was built in 1936 and was used in the logging industry. The model designation of “EN” refers to “Extra Narrow” which is showed by its 3′ 4″ width and only 8′ length. For the woods operator who carefully selects trees to be […]