A New Take on Lincolnville’s History

At Tranquility Grange, August 12, 7 p.m.
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 11:30am

    Several recent discoveries have given Lincolnville’s amateur historians a new look at their town’s past. It all started when Randy Harvey began uncovering a forgotten granite quarry in his back yard. Along with a big hole he found some old tools, improbably old according to a local tool expert. Enter archaeologist Harbour Mitchell who produced an English map showing an 18th Century road through Lincolnville’s “howling wilderness” as it was described in old texts.

    On Wednesday evening, Aug. 12, at Tranquility Grange Randy, Harbour and the other members of the Lincolnville Historical Society’s board of directors will each give a ten minute talk of these and other things that happened in Lincolnville “way back in the day”. With their interests as varied as a box of old letters to the more than 20 cemeteries in town to forgotten roads through the woods to life on a Lincolnville farm in the 1950s, the directors will have something for everyone.

    The program is free, starts at 7 p.m., and the board promises cookies. Tranquility Grange is located on Belfast Road (Route 52) about one mile north of Lincolnville Center.