Frye Mountain Former Farm Community
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.
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Is Frye Mountain Former Farm Community haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed local folklore. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
The record of claims
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.
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. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Maine history remembered at Frye Mountain' carries the account. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.
Documented history
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.
Verified historyBangor Daily News
Sources on file
- 01Maine history remembered at Frye MountainBangor Daily News · newspaper · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality. Record concerns removed farm community on Frye Mountain, not the entire living municipalities of Montville, Knox or Morrill. Blog suggestion those towns dissolved is not adopted.