Keywords: High Street School
Item 31221
Biddeford High School & Universalist choir musical program, 1891
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1891-03-03 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 14089
Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1889-06-10 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
Item 57992
85-91 High Street (ext), Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: St. Elizabeth Orphan Asylum Use: School
Item 109429
Chamberlain School Building, Auburn, 1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Auburn Client: City of Auburn Architect: Harry S. Coombs
Item 116618
Forest Street Grammar School, Westbrook, 1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Westbrook Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
John Bapst High School was dedicated in September 1928 to meet the expanding needs of Roman Catholic education in the Bangor area. The co-educational school operated until 1980, when the diocese closed it due to decreasing enrollment. Since then, it has been a private school known as John Bapst Memorial High School.
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.
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools
"Both the grade school and high school were decked out with buntings and other festive decorations for the town of Guilford’s Centennial celebration."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools
"Hallowell Schools Warren Street School, Hallowell, ca. 1890Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner The founders of Hallowell…"
Story
Sarah Jane Poli: Biddeford’s first female school superintendent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
An Italian immigrant's daughter is key to a family grocery store and a leader in the school system
Story
Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.
