LC Subject Heading: Colleges
Item 71811
Aerial view of Colby College, Waterville, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1950 Location: Waterville Media: Postcard
Item 108954
Farmington Normal School baseball team, 1896
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1896 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 109234
Sketches for Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Brunswick, 1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1951 Location: Brunswick Client: Beta Theta Pi Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 111810
Westbrook Junior College preliminaries, Portland, 1939-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939–1946 Location: Portland Client: Westbrook Junior College Architect: John Calvin Stevens II
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
