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MUSEUMS & CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS
THE WIDE VARIETY OF MUSEUMS IN THE COUNTY primarily focus on the region’s
diverse cultural heritage and history of agriculture and trades, but there are a few surprises as well.
Find unique offerings like Fort Kent’s “first mile” and a monument in Presque Isle to the Double Eagle II, the
first helium balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In Houlton stop at Pierce Park and say hello to the Boy with the
Leaky Boot statue. For natural history, try the Northern Maine Museum of Science at the University of Maine
Presque Isle to explore marine and forest specimens, and the Nylander Museum of Natural History in Caribou,
housing a wide array of geology, paleontology, flora, and fauna specimens.
SOUTHERN AROOSTOOK
Boy with the Leaky Boot
Pierce Park, Houlton,
One of only 27 such statues
in the world.
Hancock Barracks
Houlton, Housed troops during
the Bloodless Aroostook War.
Houlton Amphitheater,
Monument Park, Houlton,
Civil War monument,
summer concerts and festivals.
Aroostook County
Historical & Art Museum,
Houlton, Founded by
Ransford W. Shaw in 1938.
Southern Aroostook
Agriculture Museum,
Littleton, Keeping Maine’s
agricultural heritage alive.
Watson Settlement
Bridge, Framingham
Rd., Littleton, Maine’s
northernmost covered bridge.
Oakfield Railroad
Museum, Oakfield,
Historic passenger rail station.
Patten Lumberman’s
Museum, Patten,
Preserving Maine’s rich
logging history.
A.B. Leavitt House,
Sherman Mills, 1890 Gothic
Revival mail-order architecture.
Caribou Historical Center
& Museum, Caribou, Hand
tools, farm equipment, and military
items from the 1800s and 1900s.
Covenant Church, New
Sweden, Built in 1891. *
Caribou Performing Arts
Center, Caribou, Presenting
local and national artists. Larsson-Noak Historic
District, New Sweden,
Collection of buildings
constructed by Swedish
immigrants. *
McElwain House, Caribou,
1916 Colonial Revival
architecture. Thomas Park,
New Sweden, Amphitheater
and Maypole.
Nylander Museum
Caribou, Local animal and
early human collections.
Rosie O’Grady Balloon of
Peace Monument, Caribou,
Site of first solo balloon flight
across the Atlantic in 1984.
Francis Malcolm Science
Institute, Easton, Planetarium,
science, and nature programs.
Community Bandstand
Fort Fairfield, Beautiful
gazebo-style bandstand.
Double Eagle II Park,
Presque Isle, Commemorates
the first manned trans-Atlantic
flight in a helium balloon.
Northern Maine Museum
of Science, Presque Isle,
Science education and natural
history materials.
Presque Isle Air Museum,
Presque Isle, Dedicated to
those who served at the air base.
Friends Church, Fort
Fairfield, Earliest church
still remaining. * Reed Art Gallery UMPI,
Presque Isle, Showcasing a
variety of art by national and
regional artists.
Maysville Museum,
Presque Isle, Local history
and rural one-room schoolhouse.
April through October. The 1875 Vera Estey
House Museum,
Presque Isle, Upper-middle-
class Victorian-era home. *
McIntosh Schoolhouse,
Fort Fairfield, 1848 one-room
schoolhouse. * Tri-Cultural Museum,
Stockholm, Dedicated to
the area’s unique heritage
of Swedish, French, and
English cultures.
CENTRAL AROOSTOOK Railroad Museum,
Fort Fairfield, Locomotives
and automobile collection.
Ashland Logging Museum
Ashland, Local artifacts,
blacksmith’s shop. Blockhouse Museum,
Fort Fairfield, Replica of
original 19th-century fort.
Benjamin C. Wilder 1852
Homestead & Agricultural
Museum, Washburn,
Mid 19th-century farmhouse.
ST. JOHN VALLEY
Acadian Archives UMFK,
Fort Kent, Acadian history,
culture, and folk-life.
Blockhouse Museum,
Fort Kent, Museum of
Bloodless Aroostook War.
Musée culturel du
Mont-Carmel, Lille,
Extensive collection of Acadian
and Quebecois artifacts.
Isaie and Scholastic
Martin Acadian
Homestead, Madawaska,
Oldest active Acadian home
in the area.
Historic Governor Brann
Schoolhouse, Van Buren,
Carefully restored little red
schoolhouse, managed by the
National Park Service.
Acadian Village,
Van Buren, Seventeen
original and replica buildings.
Historical Societies are
listed on the following page.
For more information on
museums and cultural
attractions in the region
visit our website or call
Judy at 800-216-2463.
*
Open by appointment only.
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