Keywords: Schoolhouse
Item 7963
Wardwellville Schoolhouse, Otisfield, 1998
Contributed by: Otisfield Historical Society Date: 1998 Location: Otisfield; Otisfield Media: Photoprint
Item 34801
Blue Hill Falls Schoolhouse, Blue Hill 1922
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1922 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 109437
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Auburn Client: City of Auburn Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Exhibit
Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses
Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse
"Minturn Schoolhouse Minturn Schoolhouse, Swan's Island, ca. 1930Swan's Island Historical Society The Minturn Schoolhouse was built in 1899…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930
"South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first school house in South Lincoln…"
Story
Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.