STRATTON — The Dead River Area Historical Society will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 24, in conjunction with Stratton’s Family Fun Days.
While at the historical society, people can search for 12 of the 27 homes that were brought to this area from Flagstaff and Dead River Plantation before the flooding of those towns to create Flagstaff Lake. Photographs of those houses will be provided as they were then, with clues as to where they are now.
The museum will open for the 2017 season on Saturday, July 1, and will be open every weekend from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through August.
This year, the historical society invitates vendors to set up, free of charge, every weekend in July and August. For more information, call 246-2271. Vendors must stay to the left of the building and not in the driveway.
On display in the museum are artifacts, manuscripts and photographs that have been donated or loaned by interested townspeople and descendants of original families of the Dead River region. Collections from 1850 on include old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, a church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the lost towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families, and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.
For more information, call Mary Henderson at 246-2271.
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