Maine Memory Network

Daughters of Wisdom Convent Chapel, St. Agatha, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print

Notre Dame de la Sagesse Convent, St. Agatha, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Postcard

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.

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.

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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