PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — During these trying times as the entire world is in “stay-at-home” mode, many well-known museums are offering virtual tours. Not to be left behind, Presque Isle Historical Society now has a virtual tour of 30 historic sites around downtown Presque Isle available.
Maine’s motto is “Dirigo,” a Latin word meaning “I Lead,” Presque Isle has rich history that has led the state, nation and even the world, from the state’s first state park (Aroostook State Park, established in 1938) to the 1959 National Christmas Tree (the first tree from east of the Mississippi and from private land) to the location of the nation’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (the SNARK in 1958).
The tour is conveniently set up as mini virtual vignettes (most under three minutes in length). View them all, or view one. Do them in order or on a whim.
To view the vignettes, go to: www.pihistory.org/virtual-tours-of-historic-downtown.html.
The Presque Isle Historical Society, an all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit corporation, was founded in 1963. For more information, visit www.pihistory.org, call 762-1151 or email pihistoricalsociety@hotmail.com.
