STRATTON – The Dead River Area Historical Society met June 4 at the Stratton Community Building.

Ron Pratt attended the meeting and told of the Agricultural Museum at the Farmington Fairgrounds. Plans are being made to have a historical exhibit of Stratton/Eustis, Dead River, Flagstaff and Coplin, the areas represented by the Dead River Area Historical Society. More information will be available in the future.

It was decided to have a book table at the Stratton Days celebration on Saturday, June 30, to benefit the museum. If anyone has books they would like to donate they should contact Deb Townsend at 246-3562.

Sam O. White Day will be held Sunday, July 15. Bob Schipper, a close friend, will tend the museum that day. White was born and raised on Eustis Ridge and after World War I, he moved to Alaska. He was the first bush pilot/game warden in the world..

The book, “Sam O. White, Alaskan,” is available at Country Charm in Stratton. For more information, call 246-5871.

The Dead River Area Historical Society will open on Saturday, June 30, for the season and will be open every weekend during July and August from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

On display 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 a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.

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