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Regulators say the company behind the Flagpole for Freedom project built more than 52 cabins and a restaurant in the woods of Washington County without proper permits.

Regulators say the company behind the defunct Flagpole for Freedom project built more than 52 cabins and a restaurant in the woods of Washington County without proper permits.

The Flagpole of Freedom Park in southeast Maine is no longer being pursued.

Land maneuvers done in anticipation of an ambitious patriotic park are being undone and revisited since the plan was abandoned.

An attorney for the Worcester family, which runs the nonprofit Wreaths Across America, says the family has dropped its plans to build the billion-dollar park in the woods Downeast.

Small settlement in Maine wilderness manages to pause plans for 'Flagpole of Freedom' war memorial park

The tallest flagpole in the world is coming to Maine.

The tallest flagpole in the world is coming to Maine.

The tallest flagpole in the world is coming to Maine.

The billion-dollar patriotic theme park would make Columbia Falls, Maine a destination, its flagpole rising 1,776 feet above sea level.