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What follows appeared in the January 14,1897, edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. The paper regularly printed a feature called “Rangeley Recollections” which shared what the region was like some 50 years prior to 1897.Enjoy what follows and be sure to make some great Rangeley history of your own! (Contemporary commentary shared in Italics). RANGELEY […]
By Compiled by Bill Pierce Executive Director of the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society Read Article What follows are some clippings from Page 1 of the December 10, 1896 edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. This edition was so interesting that I never got passed page 1 before finding some interesting material. What follows below is from a feature entitled “Recollections” found above the fold. Just as we today enjoy looking back to get a “snapshot” of what 1890’s Rangeley was like, they were doing the very same thing in “Recollections” which harkened back to the 1840’s. Of...