Presque Isle Historical Society’s Maysville Museum will open for its 11th summer season from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m on Saturday, May 30.
The museum is located at 165 Caribou Road on the corner of U.S. Route 1 and Brewer Road.
The site is historically significant in that it once served simultaneously as the Maysville Town Hall, Maysville School and the Maysville Grange. In 2017, the society opened the renovated site as a museum on Presque Isle’s history.
In celebration of the semiquincentennial this year (America’s 250th birthday), every visitor will receive a free 24” (including the wooden dowel) American flag, while supplies last. Admission to the museum is free.
The museum has four cornerstone exhibits – The Aroostook War, Presque Isle and the Civil War, Agri-Culture, and Presque Isle’s One-Room Schoolhouses – as well as several smaller exhibits. One of the most popular exhibits is a working antique telephone switchboard.
Each year, two new exhibits are debuted. This year will feature Victorian photography and Victorian trinket boxes. A brief presentation on the new exhibits will be given at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 31.
Kim Smith, board member and museum curator, said, “It is so meaningful to all of the board and members to be able to continue to serve this community with our regularly recurring tours and presentations, over 40 different virtual tours, the 1875 Vera Estey House Museum, and the Maysville Museum as well as special Semiquincentennial events this year – and many of these offerings are free to the public. We love to share local history and are so fortunate to continue to be able to do so.”
Presque Isle Historical Society is an all-volunteer organization and is always looking for volunteers to staff the museum for the summer. Anyone interested should contact the society by email at pihistoricalsociety@hotmail.com.
