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Keywords: Model School
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Item 64269
Title: Model School Classroom, Farmington State Normal School, 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF
Date: 1917
Location: Farmington
Media: sepia photograph
Item 16874
Title: Hand-pump fire engine model, Portland, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1850
Location: Portland
Media: Wood, paint
Item 28094
Title: Students and Teachers at Farmington Model School, 1884
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society
Date: 1884
Location: Farmington
Media: Sepia Photograph
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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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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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John Bapst Memorial High School
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown
The history of Farmington as depicted by representatives from Farmington Historical Society, Farmington Public Library, Center for Community GIS, University of Maine at Farmington, and the Mallett School. Topics covered include education, culture, early settlers, important residents, agriculture, and a special section on maps.
Site
An extensive history of a small central Maine town as compiled by team members from Guilford Historical Society and Piscataquis Community Middle School, with input from Guilford Memorial Library, Guilford Economic Development Board, and the Guilford’s town office. Manufacturing, festive events, historic buildings, notable veterans, and education, are covered in depth.