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Item 64269

Model School Classroom, Farmington State Normal School, 1917

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF

Date: 1917

Location: Farmington

Media: Photographic print

Item 16874

Hand-pump fire engine model, Portland, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1850

Location: Portland

Media: Wood, paint

Item 28094

Students and Teachers at Farmington Model School, 1884

Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society

Date: 1884

Location: Farmington

Media: Photographic print

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Writing on the board, North School, Portland, ca. 1915

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

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Stone house with clipped gables, 974 Sawyer Street, South Portland, c. 1920s

Sylvan Site: A Model Development

Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.

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Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

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Will Brown with his Ford, Lincoln, ca. 1910

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

… Steering Riding Down the Roads of Lincoln Model T Buy a Model-T Cruising Down Streets of Lincoln Going Home Again Works Cited Bradstreet, Taylor…

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