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Keywords: One-room schools
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Item 20237
Title: Central School, New Sweden, 1938
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society
Date: 1938
Location: New Sweden
Media: Photograph
Item 6681
Title: Children inside Danville Corner School
Contributed by: Androscoggin Historical Society
Date: circa 1890
Location: Auburn; Danville
Media: black and white photograph
Item 7278
Title: Dunkertown School (South Otisfield) about 1924
Contributed by: Otisfield Historical Society
Date: circa 1924
Location: Otisfield; Otisfield
Media: Photograph
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Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses
Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.
Exhibit
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools
When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.
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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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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.