Next steps have been determined for the future of the Bangor Sawmill Museum site in Clare.
Fire destroyed the building on Saturday, it was one of the last water-powered turbine lumber sawmills in North America.
Denise Comeau-Desautels of the Bangor Development Commission says the board met to discuss what should happen.
“The sawmill and the museum are gone, but the history is not gone. We’re planning on building a museum on the site,” said Desautels.
She says it will take a lot of fundraising, but they are going to research those avenues.
Desautels says people in the community have taken this hard, and re-establishing a museum is a way forward.
“People come here and they cry, that’s how they feel. People are hurting so much from this.”
Desautels says her family was involved in the sawmill for five generations, and she grew up next door to the site.
She says they’ve received messages of support from across the country.
