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Historical Items

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Item 20006

Danforth School House

Contributed by: An individual through East Grand School Date: 1912 Location: Danforth Media: Photographic print

Item 31347

Coal Kiln School, Scarborough, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Item 25580

Biddeford High School Exhibition Advertisement, ca. 1900

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

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Tax Records

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Item 36505

Assessor's Record, 53-59 Pitt Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: City of Portland Style: School Use: School

Item 77034

5 School Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Alice Durgin Use: Dwelling - Two family

Item 77044

26 School Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Margaret B. Donahue Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109487

School House at Bowdoinham, Me., 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Bowdoinham Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109736

Primary School House, Lewiston, ca. 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1897 Location: Lewiston Client: City of Lewiston Architect: not listed

Item 109614

Plans of School House at Fort Fairfield, Fort Fairfield, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Fort Fairfield Client: Town of Fort Fairfield Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Site Pages

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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…"

Site Page

My Maine Stories

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Story

Quinton "Skip" Wilson: different aspects of "standing out"
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Recollections of life as Biddeford's only student of color during the 1960-70s

Story

The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Longfellow Studies: "Haunted Houses"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's collection The Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems was published in 1858. It sold 250,000 copies in two months and over 10.000 copies in London on the first day; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was extremely popular during his lifetime. "Haunted Houses" is a work from that collection. It is a poem that is especially appealing around Halloween. The poem welcomes the reader to a place where "The spirit-world around the world of sense floats like an atmosphere . . ."