47th Annual Founder's Day and Classic Car Exhibit
Sat, Jul 18
|Paris Hill Common
A variety of vendors on the village green and a one day public viewing of an extraordinaryprivate automobile collection with antique dolls, toys, carriages and more. Donations - Adults $15, Children (12 and under) $2 All proceeds benefit the Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum
Time & Location
Jul 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Paris Hill Common, 500 Paris Hill Rd, South Paris, ME 04281, USA
About the event
Saturday, July 18th, 2026
Paris, ME
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The 47th annual Founder’s Day to support the Hamlin Library and Museum in Paris, Maine will be held Saturday July 18, 2026.
The showpiece of the charity event is The Bahre Collection of antique and Classic cars. The collection, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln's first vice-president, is open once a year to the public at the Founder’s Day event.
The collection of over fifty vehicles includes one of the world's finest assemblages of Packards. The Packard collection features Dietrich V-windshield body styles and LeBaron V-windshield body styles on the Packard 12 chassis for 1932-34, the one-off front-wheel-drive prototype sedan, a 1906 Model S touring car and other specialty Packards.