Historical Society

Meetings and Programs

Programs of historical interest are presented at the monthly meetings, which were at 7 P.M. on the fourth Monday of each month at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library March through November.

Our Officers

Patrick Calloway, President

Kathy Pratt, Vice President

John MacDuffie, Treasurer

Muriel Davisson, Secretary

History

According to Stanley W. Reed, who was active in the Tremont Historical Society from the 1960s to 1990s, the Society began in the 1930s and was the first historical society in this area. In the 1950s, the Mount Mansell Historical Society was formed by Lawrence S. Robinson, Thomas Searle, Ralph Stanley and Millard Herrick in Southwest Harbor to preserve historic artifacts.  Interest in the Tremont Historical Society waned during the 1970s.  The present Society was reorganized from the original in 1988 after the voters of Tremont in 1988 approved the Comprehensive Planning Committee’s Report that recommended the formation of a historical society for the Town of Tremont.  The Articles of Incorporation and ByLaws were approved by the State in 1989.  In the 1992 town report Stan Reed reported that the Tremont and Mount Mansell societies had combined into one.  Key people during the 1960s and the reorganization in the 1980s included Stan Reed, Mr. & Mrs. John Nelson & daughter Muriel DeCorte, Wayne and Virginia Libhart, Arlene and Bob Bartlett, Ralph Stanley, Janet and Wayne Patton, and Chuck Liebow.  The Society helped raise money for the Bernard library addition, maintained a historical room there until the renovation of the Country Store Museum in 2002 and continues to meet there now (since 1991).

The present Society is a quasi-municipal organization of the Town of Tremont but a separate corporation. The Society has over 200 members around the country and is managed by a Board of Directors, which has 12 members.

Public programs were presented on the 4th Monday of the months March through November at 7pm, at the Bass Harbor Memorial library in Bernard,.