Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Teacher and Good Will Boys, Fairfield, 1890

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes

Date: 1893

Location: Fairfield

Media: Black and White Photographic Print

Title: Frost District School, Brunswick, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society

Date: circa 1880

Location: Brunswick

Media: print, photograph

Title: Farmington School Teacher, circa 1915

Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society

Date: circa 1915

Location: Farmington

Media: Black and White Photograph

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.

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.

Hermann Kotzschmar: Portland's Musical Genius

During the second half of the 19th century, "Hermann Kotzschmar" was a familiar household name in Portland. He spent 59 years in his adopted city as a teacher, choral conductor, concert artist, and church organist.

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

A multi-village history of this western Maine town as created by students and teachers from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical Society. Exhibits are divided into sections examining North New Portland Village, East New Portland Village, and West New Portland Village.