SOUTH PARIS The Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce’s 12th annual Festival of Trees is set for Friday through Sunday, Nov. 24-26, at McLaughlin Gardens & Homestead Barn, 97 Main St. The event is set for 4-7 p.m. Nov. 24, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Nov. 25 and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 26. The chamber is accepting […]
SOUTH PARIS The Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce will hold its 11th annual Festival of Trees on Nov. 25-27 at the historic McLaughlin Garden & Homestead Barn at 97 Main St., South Paris. Tree set-up dates are Nov. 21 from noon to 7 p.m.; Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Nov. […]
The 40th annual Christmas Parade and the 11th annual Festival of Trees are scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Nov. 25-27. The Christmas Parade kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, at the head of Main Street in Norway. The Festival of Trees is set for 4-8 p.m. Nov. 25, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. […]
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DeKALB – At face value, driving down Lincoln Highway seems pretty standard. Local restaurants like Pizza Villa, 824 W Lincoln Highway, and Molly’s Eatery & Drinkery, 1000 W Lincoln Highway, are at the center of DeKalb alongside bigger restaurant chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Burger King. In the middle of it all is the Glidden Historical Center, 921 W Lincoln Highway, and the Homestead Barn, a site with incredible historical significance: the site of early barbed wire development.
Barbed wire as an effective and patented device starts right at the Glidden Homestead with the inventor Joseph F. Glidden, said Robert Glover, the executive director of the Glidden Homestead Historical Center. Glidden first arrived in 1845, and lived in a wood cabin right where the Burger King, 913 W Lincoln Highway, is located. It wasn’t until 1861 when Glidden built the house, and the barn around 1870.