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Maine Arctic Trail Map

Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum

  • Boothbay
    • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
    • Boothbay Harbor
    • Hodgdon Yachts
    • Owls Head Transportation Museum
  • Brunswick
    • Bowdoin College
    • Freeport Historical Society, Freeport
    • Maine Maritime Museum
    • Peary’s Eagle Island
    • Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum
    • White Cedar Inn
  • Bucksport
    • Bucksport Historical Society
    • Buck Memorial Library
    • Cranberry Isle Historical Society and Islesford Historical Museum
    • Maine Maritime Academy
    • Verona Island
  • Fryeburg
    • Admiral Peary Inn Bed & Breakfast
    • Jockey Cap Rock
    • Poland Spring Preservation Society
  • Interior Maine
    • Maine State Museum
    • LC Bates Museum
  • Orono
    • Climate Change Institute
    • Hudson Museum
    • Jesup Memorial Library
    • Quoddy Head State Park
  • Portland
    • Eimskip
    • Home & Away Art Gallery
    • Maine Historical Society
    • Maine Women Writers Collection
    • Osher Map Library
    • Portland Company

Freeport Historical Society, Freeport

freeport historical society

Freeport Historical Society is located in the historic Harrington House built in 1830, one block south of L.L. Bean in Freeport. Its collections include a sculpture of Admiral Donald MacMillan, who lived in Freeport for many years, as well as photographs and correspondence relating to him. He had family and friends in town, and so visited and lectured often. Freeport Historical Society houses a logbook from MacMillan’s explorations on the schooner Bowdoin in 1938. There are also photographs, ephemera, and a bone-tipped Inuit paddle brought back by MacMillan’s engineer John Jaynes in the collection.

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Donald MacMillan

Address: Freeport Historical Society, Harrington House, 45 Main Street, Freeport, Maine 04032

Website: http://freeporthistoricalsociety.org/


Photo courtesy to Freeport Historical Society.

Filed Under: Brunswick Region

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Acknowledgement

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College, is pleased to acknowledge the Oak Foundation for generously funding the development, design, and production of this project, which was originally produced as a paper map. Additional support was provided by the Arctic Museum’s Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. Production of the website was supported by a Gibbons Summer Research Fellowship.

We wish to thank four Bowdoin College students for their assistance. Lydia Woodward ’16 compiled many of the entries appearing in this brochure. Aidan French ’18 and William Wise ’18 did additional research on some of the Maine-Arctic connections. Xin Jiang ’20 prepared this website and did additional research.

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