Gore School, Otisfield, ca. 1918

Contributed by Otisfield Historical Society

Group of students, teacher, and two visitors standing in front of brick schoolhouse. The one-room schoolhouse was built in the 1830s and was demolished and replaced by a new building after 1922.

Persons in photo are, from left, Orrell Linnell, Roland Annis, Ralph Thomas, Ellis Ahonen (front), Lester Thomas (tall boy in rear), teacher Irene Dolby (dark haired in rear). Small boys in front are Robert Thomas and Loren Brett; girls are Helen Brett (rear), Helen Ahonen (front), Doris Annis (tall, in rear), Rita Linnell (front); two sisters in black were visitors named Phillips, descendants of Samuel Phillips, early owner of Phillips Gore.

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Title: Gore School, Otisfield, ca. 1918
Creation Date: circa 1918
Subject Date: circa 1918
Local Name: Gore
Town: Otisfield
County: Cumberland, Oxford
State: ME
Dimensions (cm): 7 x 11
Local Code: 2002-26A
Collection: Coll. 16
Object Type: Image

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Otisfield Historical Society
c/o Hankins, 202 Scribner Hill Rd., Otisfield, ME 04270
(207) 539-2521
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecotisf/otis8.htm

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