FRYE MOUNTAIN FORMER FARM COMMUNITY
Abandoned Farm Settlement — Montville, Waldo County, Maine
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/frye-mountain-former-farm-community-montville-maine/

Farm community removed through Depression-era land purchases, remembered through local testimony.

Frye Mountain Former Farm Community is a abandoned farm settlement in Montville, Maine. Farm community removed through Depression-era land purchases, remembered through local testimony. The newspaper interviewed a former resident and historical-society leaders about federal purchase of the farms in 1937 and eventual creation of a state game area in 1958. Local lore holds that Former resident Hartley Curtis recalled a scythe-tree tradition: soldiers leaving for the Civil War hung tools there, and families left some as memorials. The precise tree site is unverified.

Frye Mountain is the bought — the '49 farms' that's the government's count, the 'Bankhead Jones' that's the act's name. The 'burned good' is the hurt — the 'homes torched' that's the clearing's way, the 'hard feelings' that's the neighbors' keep. The 'roads failed' is the forced — the 'no cars' that's the isolation's form, the 'neighbors sold' that's the pressure's push.
The 'cemetery moved' is the partial — the 'some graves' that's the dig's scope, the 'left' that's the rest's state. The 'orchards grew' is the gone — the 'maple syrup' that's the farms' mix, the 'ice cut' that's the winter's work. Frye Mountain is the forested — the 'trees took' that's the century's turn, the 'wildlife area' that's the use's now.
The file keeps Frye Mountain: the bought farms, the burned homes, the failed roads, and the moved cemetery.
Frye Mountain is the archive's Maine file — the community the government paid to erase.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Frye Mountain is the archive's Maine file — the resettlement that burned its own houses.
A mountain keeps its cellars — the file's suggestion being that Frye's hold is the erased: the '49 farms' that's the buy's scale, the 'burned' that's the clearing's cruel, and the 'forest' that's the mountain's now.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] memorial folklore: Former resident Hartley Curtis recalled a scythe-tree tradition: soldiers leaving for the Civil War hung tools there, and families left some as memorials. The precise tree site is unverified. Frye Mountain Former Farm Community's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Maine history remembered at Frye Mountain' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.
  source: Maine history remembered at Frye Mountain (https://www.bangordailynews.com/2014/09/29/news/maine-history-remembered-at-frye-mountain-in-montville/)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The newspaper interviewed a former resident and historical-society leaders about federal purchase of the farms in 1937 and eventual creation of a state game area in 1958. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Maine history remembered at Frye Mountain'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Maine history remembered at Frye Mountain — Bangor Daily News
  https://www.bangordailynews.com/2014/09/29/news/maine-history-remembered-at-frye-mountain-in-montville/

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