The annual celebration of Farmington inventor Chester Greenwood took place on Saturday with hundreds flooding the streets downtown for a parade, craft fair and other activities.
Farmington Historical Society
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‘I just feel the need for preservation’: Farmington Historical Society volunteers clean over 200 headstones
Members of the Farmington Historical Society and volunteers worked one Saturday a month.
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Farmington Historical Society cleans gravestones over summer
Members of the Farmington History Society met once a month in the Riverside Cemetery to help clean and collect data on the gravestones in the first row by the road.
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Farmington History Society to host soirée
To match the grant received in May, Farmington Historical Society will be hosting another sun porch soiree, set for Saturday, July 29, at 6 p.m.
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Historic Farmington sun porch will see renovations thanks to grant funding
The Farmington Historical Society will be renovating part of the Octagon House using grant funding from Maine Preservation.
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Over 100-year-old tulip poplar tree in Farmington is unusual
A tulip poplar tree near the Octagon House in Farmington is more than 100 years old, was probably imported and planted there by the Mallett family.
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Suffrage plaque for Isabel Greenwood unveiled in Farmington
Isabel’s plaque is a part of National Votes for Women Trail, which honors suffragists who worked to get women the right to vote with historical markers across America.