STRATTON – The Dead River Area Historical Society will feature “The Bachelder Family” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17. Host will be Carl Hill, grandson of Aaron and Marianne Bachelder of Stratton.

The Bachelder family was one of the largest families in the Dead River Region and the museum has many photographs and genealogy of the family. Those who may be or know someone from that family are invited to attend and share their knowledge and photographs.

The special days are not presentations, but a gathering of people knowledgeable about the featured subject.

On display in the museum are artifacts, manuscripts and photographs that have been donated or loaned by interested townspeople and descendants of original families of the Dead River Region.

Collections from 1850 on include old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families and memorabilia from native homesteads.

For more information, call Mary Henderson at 246-2271.