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Augusta Unveils Canal Street "Museum in the Streets"
Nine "Museum in the Streets" signs will be unveiled along Canal Street in Augusta on Sunday, August 3. Together they tell in words and pictures the story of the Kennebec Dam and the mills and factories the dam powered between 1837 and 1999. Canal Street is off Northern Avenue and runs parallel to Augusta's Mill Park, the site of so much of the City's early industrial development. Museum in the Streets is an outdoor interpretive program designed to bring a community's history out from behind museum walls and make it available to all, without admission fees and hours of operation. Several Maine towns, including Waterville, have these programs. Two other Museum in the Streets sign sets are scheduled to be installed in Augusta before the end of the year. Thirty signs are being developed by the Augusta Historic Preservation Commission for the Riverfront District. Nine signs on the Statehouse campus and elsewhere will mark important Civil War locations. All will eventually be connected by a map guide and brochure. Funding for the Canal Street signs came from a Transportation Enhancement Grant from the Maine Department of Transportation. | ||
