Search Results

Keywords: Western State Normal School

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 7 Showing 3 of 7

Item 64267

Principal C.C. Rounds, Farmington State Normal School, 1868

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1868 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 64331

Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1880 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 64403

George C. Purington, Farmington State Normal School, 1907

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1907-11-08 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 8 Showing 3 of 8

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

Exhibit

Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women

Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 5 Showing 3 of 5

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"Founding of the Farmington State Normal School Normal Schools (the now-obsolete term once used to describe institutions whose purpose it was to…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Farmington Normal School Farmington State Normal School, 1870 In the rear of the Normal School Building the old Farmington Academy Building can…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"And the Normal School would be the catalyst for improved education in the public sector. Farmington is a proud community – proud of their downtown…"