Welcome to the Vanceboro Maine Historical Society! Our mission is to preserve the history of Vanceboro, Maine, and the surrounding area by collecting, curating, and displaying historical items and artifacts, researching stories, hosting speakers, and developing educational programs. We are working to upload more history in the form of community stories, photographs, and family histories.

Please visit our museum located at 101 High Street, Vanceboro. Email vanceboro.hs@gmail.com to schedule.

You can become involved in many ways.

1. Join our Facebook page, where we regularly share stories of Vanceboro history.

2. Become a member. VHS is a nonprofit, so membership fees and donations are tax-deductible. Your contribution will help us preserve the rich history of the area. Plus, you’ll get a cool membership card.

To make a tax-deductible donation, click the button below to access our secure online donation system.

Vanceboro Historical Society

P.O. Box 48

Vanceboro, Maine 04491

Please download our membership form here and include it with your donation

3. Donate historical items, such as photographs, books, journals, personal papers, letters, diaries or records that help us understand and preserve the history of Vanceboro and the surrounding area. You can download our donation form here.

Land Acknowledgement

The Vanceboro Historical Society acknowledges that the town of Vanceboro is located in the homeland of the Passamaquoddy Nation, where issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites are ongoing. This region is the crossroads to three great waterways, Skutik (St. Croix), Wolastoq (St. John) and the Penobscot River. Passamaquoddy call this region collectively the Chipneticook (“lakes in the highland”).

We also acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that the people indigenous to this place were often forcibly removed and the resulting harm continues and is felt by members of the Passamaquoddy Nation today. The VHS recognizes the Passamaquoddy Nation as a distinct, sovereign, legal and political entity with its own powers of self-governance and self-determination.