Tiny Maine town is at war over local businessman's $1BN plan to build world's tallest flagpole - that would higher than the Empire State Building

Daily Mail ^ | 7/02/23 | Harriet Alexander

[Libloather]

A tiny town in Maine has been divided by a plan to build the world's tallest flagpole, with an American flag the size of a football field and an accompanying museum and theme park.

The scheme is the brain child of a local businessman, Morrill Worcester.

Worcester's family-owned business, Worcester Wreaths, cultivates thousands of acres of balsam forest used to make wreaths for Christmas. Since 1992 he has also been donating wreaths for the tombs of American veterans, and in 2007 the charity Wreaths Across America was formed.

Worcester came up with the plan for a gigantic patriotic gesture in his home state, in the town of Columbia Falls - home to 485 people, 50 miles north east along the coast from Acadia National Park.

The town is known for blueberries, lobster fishing and being among the last pristine wildernesses on the East Coast.

But last year, Worcester unveiled his plan to build a flagpole 1,461 feet tall, rising 1,776 feet above sea level, complete with an elevator to take people to the top.

The flagpole would be taller than the Empire State Building, and give views all the way to Canada.

The $1 billion scheme would include history museums telling the country's story through veterans' eyes, plus a 4,000-seat auditorium, restaurants and monument walls with the name of every deceased veteran dating to the Revolution - 24 million names.

Worcester has named the project the Flagpole of Freedom Park, and wants to create a patriotic theme park, replete with gondolas to ferry visitors around.

It would require paving over woods for parking spaces and construction of housing for hundreds, maybe thousands of workers - potentially transforming this oasis into a sprawl of souvenir shops, fast-food restaurants and malls.

[jmaroneps37]

Showing anything patriotic to a Mainer is like show a cross to Dracula.

[minnesota_bound]

The high noise of the flag flapping in the wind would be constant. No rest. It would be like having a windmill around with the noise it generates.

[gitmo]

The only drawback to Maine is its' greedy, rich, leftist, extremist, white supremacist, bigoted, racist, fascist, NAZI democrat politicians, along with their RINO senators.

And it gets colder than penguin poop.

[x]

Nice idea, but I’d hate to have it fall on me.

[x]

RIP Freedomland USA