Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead is a non-profit nature preserve and non-traditional house museum that seeks to connect people to place through nature, history and the arts.
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10 a.m. – Noon | Ages 8-13 |$20 | Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead teams up with the City of Hallowell’s Luthier’s Festival! Become a young Luthier! Kids ages 8-13 can come to the Homestead to join expert guitar maker Joel Amsden from Kennebec Instrument and Amplifier in making a
COMMUNITY EVENT: 5th Annual Fall Celebration 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | No reservations required | Free | Please join us for our fifth annual Fall Celebration! Pack up a picnic lunch, put on your favorite fall sweater and come on up to the Homestead. Enjoy the campfire, play lawn
When a stray bit of ash from the factories along the brook below the Homestead blew onto William Warren Vaughan’s porch and landed in his teacup in the late 1800s, he became determined to buy back the family lands adjacent to the house that had become industrialized — so goes
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When William Warren Vaughan dreamed of restoring the woods adjacent to his family’s 1794 historic home after they had been ravaged by industry, he envisioned a magical and wild place to be enjoyed by future generations. Thus, between 1890 and 1930 he and his brother Benjamin worked tirelessly to purchase
