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Smoke, water damage to Visitor’s Center collection assessed

by Geoff Fox

Hancock Historical Society President Dan Murphy was inside the Hancock Visitor’s Center after last week’s electrical fire surveying the damage and what was lost.

The fire started shortly after 10 a.m. on Friday, July 19, at the Hancock Visitor’s Center at 42 West Main Street when a volunteer noticed what he described as “molten plastic” dripping on to the carpet from an overhead light.

The fire burned an eight-foot area in circumference…

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