Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Guilford Center Schoolhouse, ca. 1895Guilford Historical Society The second school to appear in Guilford was built in 1818 in Guilford Center."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… Ira Fish and a group of other people built a schoolhouse. The school was one story high. It was 18 feet by 22 feet."

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

"… Society In 1996 the historic Little Red Schoolhouse was offered to the LHS if it could be moved from its location at the high school to land…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… one of his violins, made from parts of an old schoolhouse that had been on Ross Road, at the high school graduation in the Town Hall."

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

"(Before Yarmouth seceded in 1849, there were eighteen!) These schoolhouses were very local institutions; students who lived within a mile's distance…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"The residents of Walnut Hill built the “Great Schoolhouse” (c. 1780 ) near the Walnut Hill Cemetery on Route 115 and also used it for worship."

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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"The Atlantic and Minturn schoolhouses shut down and all island students attended the old Harbor school."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… factory, at least four mills, two shipyards, a schoolhouse, and a church. Somesville also had the island's first public house."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… the doorway, and we kids would often run down from the schoolhouse at recess to buy one of those big sour cucumber pickles, a penny apiece.”"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"When Mrs. Pendleton took office, six schoolhouses were open, including two so-called free high schools."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… church structure, services were held in an island schoolhouse. The Baptist Church was founded in 1817, and the church building itself was…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Machias under construction 1817 • First village schoolhouse built and included meeting hall on second floor."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"A schoolhouse, the Creek School, located near the creek overlooking Broad Cove, provided education for area students."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Guilford Center Schoolhouse, ca. 1895Guilford Historical Society The first census to include what would become Guilford was in 1810 and showed a…"

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

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

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

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

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… helped establish the first post office, church, schoolhouse and meeting hall, later entering local politics."