BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 15, 2023
A nationally lauded developer who restored P.T. Barnum’s Bridgeport, Connecticut, blighted Victorian neighborhood has big plans for Aroostook County. Littleton native Todd Thompson, 63, bought the 16,000 square-foot Monticello Wellington School for $84,000 two summers ago. He also purchased an adjacent 25 acres of rolling hills and partly wooded land along the river behind the school. Katahdin North Plaza and Monticello Meadows Campground, will offer bunkhouses, a restaurant, grocery and liquor store, laundromat, lounge and places to camp along the river. With more than 2,300 miles of trails, snowmobiling is big business for Aroostook County.