August 3rd Special Open House from 10 am to 4 pm
Requested Donation: $5.00 per person (kids under 12 free!)
Mill tours, Homestead tours, Fiber Barn, Blacksmith Shop, Antique Engines and Tractors. Special music by Sebago Lakes Ukulele Society at 2:00pm! A local woodworker will demonstrate chairmaking, another volunteer will discuss granite splitting as it pertains to the mill complex. Family day! Hot dogs and snacks available. Come spend some time back in the past.
244 Scribners Mill Road, Harrison, ME - Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fpzc7MPiqPKYRyGs8
VISITING THE MILL SITE
We have tours on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month, June-September, from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Also open on Memorial Day. Tours are free (but we LOVE donations!). If you would like to stop by and look at the mill on the off season, please feel free to roam the grounds, but the mill will be locked for security. The mill and the Crooked River with the snow and ice in the winter are very beautiful and wonderful photo opportunities abound. In addition to our regular in-season hours, we host special tours and educational programs. We are closed during the winter.
EXHIBIT SHED
Our new exhibit shed is in place behind the long shed! This will be used to display period artifacts from the homestead farm and sawmill including an ox sling, along with various machines and items used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
EVENTS
Scribner’s Mill is usually open for the last tour of the season of the mill and homestead on Labor Day week-end.
Some highlights for the 2021 Labor Day weekend were hand hewing, two man use of the buck saw, and timber framing. On display was the newly restored Civil War Caisson that was adapted by the Scribner Brothers as a wagon to haul lumber and the big wheel log hauler. Tours of the mill included a demonstration of the 19 th century machinery to manufacture parts for dry (slack) barrels around 2:30. In the long shed demonstrations of the shingle mill took place around 3:00. Across the street, the 1849 Scribner Homestead was open for guided tours.
The mill site, which includes the barn, ice house, and blacksmith shop, holds a large collection of antique mill, household, and ice harvesting equipment.
Some photos from a "BACK TO THE PAST" event.
