Located at the Vose House, a family heavily involved with the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, the Phillips Historical Society has extensive displays of local and Maine aritfacts as well as artifacts and photos from the SR&RL Railroad. Click on the button to the right to learn more about the Phillips Historical Society, just minutes from the Phillips Depot.
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Ride the Sandy River! The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad is still alive and well! Located just north of the Sandy River from downtown Phillips, the rejuvenated railroad operates a large roster of restored freight and passenger rolling stock, as well as cabooses, hand cars, velocipedes and other equipment, as well as locomotives! The reborn SR&RL operates on track laid on the original roadbed, and has several structures rescued from the ravages of time, and a roundhouse and turntable located on the original site of the "Old Stone Fort", the abandoned roundhouse of the Phillips & Rangeley Railroad.
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Take a trip back in time to the middle of the 19th Century at Ambleside. Ambleside was the home of Major Seward Dill, the moving force behind bringing the narrow gauge railroad to Franklin County and Phillips. The mansion is owned by the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad, and is an ongoing restoration project where you can interact with living historians who bring Ambleside back to life. Click on the button to the right to learn more about Ambleside!
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You may know about the Stanley Brothers, inventors of the famous Stanley Steamer automobile, but did you know about their sister Chansonetta or her daughter Dorothy, famous for their photography and painting? Did you know that the Stanley Brothers invented the photography process that would make Kodak a household name? Explore these accomplishments and more in Kingfield, the home of the Stanley family and location of the Stanley Musuem. Click on the button to the right to learn about the Stanley Museum in Kingfield, Maine, just a few miles from Phillips.
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The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad was built for and lived on the logging and lumber industry in Franklin County, Maine. Did you know that Maine was considered the "lumber capital of the world" during the turn of the last century? Explore more at the Maine Forestry Museum in Rangeley. Click on the button to the right to learn more about the Maine Forestry Museum, just a few miles from Phillips.
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Known as "one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry", Wilhelm Reich is, to say it lightly, a very interesting figure indeed. If you want to learn more about someone who was a very important figure in the development of psychiatry, and truly danced to a different - very different - tune, you won't want to miss learning more about Wilhelm Reich at the Wilhelm Reich Museum between Rangeley and Oquossoc. Click on the button at right to learn more about the Wilhelm Reich Museum just outside of the village of Rangeley.
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