Keywords: Slate
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Items
Online Items Slate tablet of Ida Allen, Strong, 1892 Item 66983 infoStrong Historical Society The slate tablet was used with chalk to do…
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - 1895 Village School
1895 Village School Slate tablet of Ida Allen, Strong, 1892 Item 66983 infoStrong Historical Society The slate tablet was used with chalk…
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Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream
The slate was made of clay or volcanic ash. Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4
This is how graduations have changed. Slates and Slate Pencils Laura, grade 7 Photo of slate boards taken by students X Over the years, the…
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Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations
"Revision History of Slate." Wikipedia. Ed. Mike Norton. 11 Apr. 2011. Rivard, Paul E. Maine Sawmills: a History.
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North Yarmouth Historical Society
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5
Slate was used a lot because of the slate quarry in Monson. In the early 1900s indoor plumbing and electricity where used in new construction.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4
She would use the most basic resources, slate, chalk, and a few books. With these resources she would teach literacy, penmanship, arithmetic, and…
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930
… roof and fancy ironwork, stone ornamentation and slate roofing added. The first two floored remained the same.
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… with Hallowell granite trimmings and roof of slate. The approach to the library will be between two venerable elm trees that have stood there since…
