The Pioneer Village complex comprises 28 buildings on 20 acres housing over 50,000 irreplaceable items of historical value, restored to operating order, arranged in groups and also in the chronological order of their development.

There are 12 historic buildings around the circular "green". There's a Frontier Fort, a real honest-to-goodness Pony Express Station, an Iron Horse, and a home made of sod. There's a general store and a toy store, chock full of all the goods from yesteryear. An original art collection including 25 Currier and Ives prints, 23 Jackson paintings, and the largest single collection of Rogers statues.

You can ride a priceless steam carousel, see 17 historic flying machines and marvel at 100 antique tractors. See the world's oldest Buick, a 1902 Cadillac and a 1903 Ford, both designed by Henry Ford, plus 350 other antique cars, all displayed in their order of development.

Again I love your writting and how you find interesting "things" to take a look at. My fathers family worked for Crane and Co. for generations. My grandmother, great grandparents and great great grandparents as well as many assorted aunts and uncles are burried in Dalton in a family plot awarded to the family years and years ago as a "perk" of working for the mills. I have spent endless afternoons sifting through the old hand written birth and death records in Dalton doing family research and indeed I have been to the museum. A small but interesting place.... the size of the museum does not do the mills justice... there is so much the mills and the crane's have done for that small community than can be depicted in that tiny building.

Established in 1992 in the state of Maine, USA, Control Engineering rapidly gained a reputation for the ability to design, build, reverse engineer, and repair electronic circuits. In 1996 we were commissioned by The Hinckley Company to design and manufacture the Jetstick™ for their famous "Picnic Boat™". Since then, we have designed systems for numerous companies and individual owners, installing our controls on boats from 16 feet to ship class (200 feet). In the summer of 2007, we relocated to our current location in Palm Coast, Florida.
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Matt St. Cyr
38 Upper Minot Rd.
Pownal, ME 04069
Phone: (207) 688-3000
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Cumberland Ironworks creates high quality stainless and aluminum fixtures for the yacht and boat building industry. Cumberland Ironworks has developed several of its own unique products that have gained recent popularity in yachting circles as well as mastering the more traditional aspects of yacht metal crafting. Cumberland Ironworks founder, Matt St.Cyr is a professional mariner and has a lifetime of experience in the boating market. Matt's eye for detail constantly targets customer satisfaction bringing Cumberland Ironworks to the vanguard of marine fabrication.

"Julia Child’s Kitchen. The real thing — a donation from her Cambridge, Massachusetts home. Pans. Well worn cookbooks. Stove. Cabinets. It’s set up just as she’d worked and entertained in it for decades. By kitchen standards it’s unremarkable, but that’s part of the charm. For me, there was a special attachment since, as graduate students, my wife and I lived in an attic apartment across the street from the Childs. We never ate there, but she was as genuine in person as you’d expect from her television appearances."

"founded in 1931, strives to preserve the heritage and to protect the scenic and historic integrity of Mount Desert Island. The Society operates two museums with artifact, photograph, and archival collections dedicated to local history from 1761 to today. Our buildings are open to the public each summer, displaying changing exhibits related to MDI History. Our Sound Schoolhouse facility provides year-round resources to researchers and the community through our library, programs and workshops. Historic Preservation is at the center of the Society's mission. We offer advice to"

I saw this at the museum in Auburn IN "The author does particularly well with certain topics, including union organization activities of the 1930's-1940's and the opening of the new Dearborn Truck Plant. Also the author employs many one to two-page sidebars on specific subtopics, such as "Sailing Aboard the Ford Fleet", "Bomber Plant Captivates America", "Last Ford Train to Nowhere", and "Death of the Rotunda". Several of these subtopics cover obscure subject matter and I found them particularly interesting. "

I saw this at the museum in Auburn IN. "The text in this book is basic support for this massing of pictures of factories that most probably have never heard of, like REO, Overland, Oakland, Marion, Queen, Chalmers, DeVaux-Hall, Ruxton and a great many others, all American companies. At the height of the auto industry boom, prior to the Great Depression, there were over 1,900 manufactures of American automobiles. Also, before the Great Depression, one out of every six people were employed by the auto industry. This book is for the person that knows a great deal about automobiles and would like to go back to the days of Henry Ford, Billy Durant, Walter Chrysler, John and Horace Dodge, Ransom Olds, Louis Chevrolet, Henry Leland, David Buick and all of the other greats that started a passion that would change America and the world forever."