{"id":401,"date":"2017-07-07T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/?p=401"},"modified":"2017-09-22T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:53:50","slug":"freeport-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/brunswick-region\/freeport-historical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeport Historical Society, Freeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-402\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society.jpg\" alt=\"freeport historical society\" width=\"382\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society.jpg 382w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s explorations on the schooner <em>Bowdoin<\/em> in 1938. There are also photographs, ephemera, and a bone-tipped Inuit paddle brought back by MacMillan\u2019s engineer John Jaynes in the collection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society-macmillan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-403\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society-macmillan.jpg\" alt=\"freeport-historical-society-macmillan\" width=\"260\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society-macmillan.jpg 260w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/07\/freeport-historical-society-macmillan-142x300.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald MacMillan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Address:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Freeport+Historical+Society\/@43.8563878,-70.1068939,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cb27e3f45343d61:0x70dd8a918240557!8m2!3d43.856384!4d-70.1046999\">Freeport Historical Society, Harrington House, 45 Main Street, Freeport, Maine 04032<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freeporthistoricalsociety.org\/\">http:\/\/freeporthistoricalsociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo courtesy to Freeport Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brunswick-region","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}