STRATTON — The Dead River Historical Society announces it has received a grant of $1,000 from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust to help paint the front of the museum next summer. Thanks to the grant, more of the museum will be painted.

The society is a nonprofit organization, incorporated in 1979 for the purpose of preserving and promoting interest in the history of the Dead River area. Artifacts, manuscripts photographs have been donated or loaned from townspeople and descendants of the Dead River areas.

Collections range from 1850, with all of the artifacts given from the original families of the Dead River region. Displays include a collection of old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial exhibit to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River Plantation, the lineage of several native families and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.

The society is open every weekend during July and August from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The rest of the year it is open by appointment.

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