Maine Memory Network
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Title: Virginia Starbird, Waterford, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Waterford Historical Society

Date: circa 1920

Location: Waterford

Media: black and white photograph

Title: Virginia School and Pettengill School, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society

Date: circa 1908

Location: Rumford

Media: postcard

Title: Virginia Porter, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF

Date: circa 1907

Location: Farmington

Media: black and white photograph

Address: 18 Inverness Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Virginia A. Wells

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Address: 149 Hartley Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Virginia F. Hagan

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Address: 62 Jackson Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Bertram N. Willey

Use: Bungalow

Popham Colony

George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.

Rebecca Usher, Civil War Nurse

Rebecca Usher of Hollis signed letters that she penned for wounded Civil War soldiers with the saying, "Yours for the Soldier, Rebecca Usher." She was one of 20,000 women who worked in Union military hospitals.

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.