Swan's Island Historical Society

Swan's Island Historical Society The Historical Society has not disband. We are very much alive and active in our pursuit to make it a better more compliant place to visit and work.

Anybody who is interested in the Island history, there is always room for you. Please join us.

Progress continues!
09/01/2026

Progress continues!

The Festival will be held at the Swan's Island Rec Center. Hope to see you there! Stay tuned for more updates!
08/31/2026

The Festival will be held at the Swan's Island Rec Center. Hope to see you there! Stay tuned for more updates!

Lots of work being done behind the scenes to move the old Methodist Church onto a new foundation. Artifact packing & sto...
08/18/2026

Lots of work being done behind the scenes to move the old Methodist Church onto a new foundation. Artifact packing & storage, removal of the rotting annex, chimney removal, prepping the site for a new foundation. Stay tuned for the big MOVE sometime in September.

The Historical Society (museum) is on the move! After much work we are finally getting ready to put the former Methodis...
07/28/2026

The Historical Society (museum) is on the move! After much work we are finally getting ready to put the former Methodist Church building, built in 1884, onto a more secure foundation. This project has been many years in the making to get us to this point. Moving forward we still need substantial help to complete our vision of reopening the museum and adding a work space with archival storage for our many artifacts. Please consider joining us in this endeavor as it will take all of us to continue preserving Swan’s Island’s long and fascinating heritage.

07/05/2026

Thanks much to Jen and Garrett for making this fun parade happen!❣️

Celebrating our history! It’s what we do! Thanks to all who joined the fun!❤️🤍💙
07/05/2026

Celebrating our history! It’s what we do! Thanks to all who joined the fun!❤️🤍💙

05/20/2026

As I was driving home from work tonight, my mind went back to better times. Leaving the Consolidated school, I drove past Mallye's Pond where we spent hours skating, Aunt Maude's house, Zulma Higgins corner, Maude and Dellie's house, the Odd Fellows Hall where events happened that I never wanted to miss, I went by Ross & Mildred Kent's house and around Dewsnap's Corner where we used to have a meal in their restaurant occasionally. Heading toward the crossroads was an area called "The Flats" or Eddie Scott's Flats then at the bottom of Crossroads Hill there was a dump on the left where we would just open our window/door and toss out a bag or two of trash beside the road (it got quite high sometimes)! As I headed toward Minturn, there was the Poor House and on through Ghost Hollow where the ghost was seen walking near/on the water in the cove. Eddie Stanley lived in a tiny house just before City Point Rd. Kathleen Stanley lived across from where the Store was, then Johnny & Louise Martin's home where Dolores (Martin) Roberts lived, Bud & Melita Staples (my childhood home) was where we played so hard and always outside with the neighborhood kids. Across the road was Ricker & Beulah Ranquist home where we played. Across the road from them was the area where we chased the smell of cigar/cigarette smoke that was surely Indians. We had no doubt at all.

If I had gone into Atlantic to our 2nd home, we would have gone by the Tar Barrels where tar was heated to patch the roads, around Cottles Cove corner and on to Central Office Corner and then the Telephone Company before pulling into Dad's garage parking lot.

Am I missing any noteworthy area? Clint Staples, Jean Ranquist, Dolores Martin Roberts, Linda Ranquist Reinhardt? My next trip might go further into Minturn or Atlantic before going into the Harbor.

Wondering what is going on at the Historical Society??? We are preparing to put put the original Methodist Church build...
05/06/2026

Wondering what is going on at the Historical Society??? We are preparing to put put the original Methodist Church building onto a new foundation in order to preserve that structure. In order to do this it was necessary to remove the annex which had significant structural water damage. This process began last Spring with the packing and storage of our abundance of artifacts.
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9 North Road
Swans Island, ME
04685

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