Keywords: Dow School
Item 17903
Beauty shop, Dow Field, Bangor, 1945
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1945-04-18 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 34448
Scottow's Hill Rural School, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance
"… who lead in its great endeavor..." - General Neal Dow (1804-1897), Reminiscences of Neal Dow, 1898 X Frances E."
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual
"… Last Brewery The New England Magazine, Neal Dow: His Life and Work June 1894 Collections of Maine Historical Society This image shows James and…"
