Washburn-Norlands Living History Center is Maine’s oldest living history museum and working farm. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the ancestral home of the Washburn Family, one of America’s great industrious and political families of the 19th-century. Among the 11 children were two state Governors, four Congressmen, one U.S. Senator, two Foreign Ministers, one Civil War General, one Navy Captain, the founder of Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour, and the President of the Soo Railroad. No other American family has produced an equivalent level of political and business leadership in a single generation.

Today, the Washburn’s 400-acre property is home to the 1867 Washburn mansion, an 1883 granite library, an 1828 meeting house, a restored one-room schoolhouse, and the farmers cottage and barn which host Norlands’ historical farm including two draft Oxen, pig and poultry. The Norlands offers a variety interactive programming including guided site tours by costumed interpreters, journey-into-history programs for children, and a series of annual events.