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Our
circulating library serves the local community and
nearby areas. For more information please contact
us.
Our museum collection
includes:
- Portraits
of members
of early Paris
families, including Hamlin, Crocker, Cummings;
- Lincoln-Hamlin
campaign artifacts;
- Primitive
oil painting
"The Clearing of Paris";
- A
map, one of two
known to exist, of the Rangeley Lakes District of Oxford County, drawn
on birch bark by Metallak, son of the chief of the Cooashhaukes;
- Collection
of local
minerals and gems;
- Grandfather
clock
built on Paris Hill between 1840-1855 by Jonathan Bemis;
- Friendship
quilt made
in 1848 by the ladies (and one man) of Paris Hill;
- Keys
of the old
jailor;
Our archival collection,
a specific part of the museum collection,
includes:
- Diaries
(and diary
transcriptions);
- Early
letters;
- Other
related
information relating to earlier Paris
residents.
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