Maine Memory Network

Friendship Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950

"… school was built in 1926 to replace an older one-room schoolhouse. The old school is still standing and is now the Lincoln Center Church of God."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 2 - The schoolhouse was situated further north on the road to Farmington near the old Conant place, in the area now known as the south end of…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… remembered three special days in 1905 at the old schoolhouse; the picnic on the last day, Arbor Day, and a Friday afternoon when the primaries and…"

Haystack Historical Society

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"There was a point in time when the schoolhouse was going to be demolished, but instead it was given to the Lincoln Historical Society."

Bangor Public Library

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Cumberland Historical Society

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"… the growth of our schools from church schools to one-room schoolhouses to community schools and finally to our joint Maine School Administrative…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… children went to the nearby Buxton School, a one room schoolhouse. Skyline Farm Ca. 1900North Yarmouth Historical Society In 1857 Jeremiah…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… following year, the high school had outgrown the one room and was moved next door to the second floor of the Town Hall, where it was to remain…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… here as a result of overcrowding in the town's one room schoolhouses. The Old Town House is now owned by North Yarmouth Historical Society."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… area is fortunate that the only remaining one-room school did not succumb to time and a bulldozer."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the town boasted 32 school districts, mostly one-room schoolhouses. In John S.C. Abbott’s History of Maine, Farmington was touted as a community…"