The Freeport Historical Society is honored to enter into a partnership with the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for a $3,000 grant to purchase new hardware and collection management software which will support the Society’s mission to promote and encourage historical research and to gather and disseminate information concerning the history of the Village of Freeport.

The historical society was organized in 1961 and has established its home in a small 1861 bayman’s cottage on South Main Street.  The Society’s collections include textiles, maritime artifacts, military objects, glass negatives, photographs, books, furniture, music scores, vintage toys, and ephemera.  More notable objects in the collections include Village of Freeport police records, cemetery records, local 1898 and 1912 census records, and tax maps.