Corinth Maine Historical Society

06/03/2026

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hunting Retirement Party at the Parker House 1894

06/03/2026

Advertisement from 6/13/63.
Austin Jenness's farm was where Adams' Strawberry 🍓 Farm is now. Austin, married to Ruth Goss Jenness, was the son of George Jenness. Austin and Ruth had two children Linda and Mark.

05/26/2026

Miniature Dow Village Restored

This beautiful miniature village that resides in the backyard of the museum has suffered some damage by a vandal in the summer of 2024 and was also in need of new paint and roof shingles.
Thanks to the volunteers from the Olin Dow family relations, Danny Darling and his sister Teresa Darling Scott, the buildings have been given a new lease on life. Jeff Dow and JR Dow donated bundles of cedar shake shingles for the project.
This tiny village was moved to the museum from the pond on Exeter Road in 2008 and painted and repaired by Gareth and Beverly Blackwell in 2009.
Olin “Roy” Dow built the village beginning about 1965 and taking about 20 years. He dug the pond in his yard and placed the miniature buildings around the pond which had been a fixture on
Exeter Road. The original village also included a windmill and water wheel, which are no longer part of the remaining buildings. We do have a church, a store, a hotel, two small houses and a covered bridge and a duck house.
Roy and his wife Wilda (Pratt) Dow were married in 1917 and raised 5 children, Richard, Adelbert, Lilla, Olin Jr. and Edna. Many of the descendants of Roy and Wilda still live in Corinth. They were married for 68 years before Wilda died in 1985. Roy died in 1991 and both are buried at Corinthian Cemetery, Corinth.
We thank the great grandchildren of Olin Dow for taking on this task of repairing this quaint village to help it continue into the future.

05/24/2026

05/16/2026

"BLUE HEAVEN" play was presented at the Kenduskeag Grange Hall November 12, 1935, with Miss Avis Brown of East Corinth in the leading role.

05/16/2026

A LONGTIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBER'S PERSPECTIVE: Beverly Blackwell found this birthday card that her mother received from Frank Salley many years ago. In fact on her ninth birthday anniversary in 1909! How exciting to know people who knew people! This type of thing is exactly what we are interested in at the Society. If you have any info of this type please share it. And by the way “help” WE NEED YOUNGER MEMBERS to replace us older people because when we go chances are this wonderful Museum will be no more! And that would be a terrible loss to our community. 😞 Bev Blackwell. XOXO.

05/16/2026

FIFTY MILE BIKE RUN September 26, 1890. It appears they started in Bangor to Levant to Kenduskeag to East Corinth to West Corinth and then the "most direct route to the city". We might speculate where they dined in West Corinth, but could have been a picnic lunch. Would anyone like to guess what the direct route would be from West Corinth to Bangor at the time? Add your comments here.

05/14/2026

Advertisement in the Bangor newspaper April 27, 1908