Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - EXHIBITS

"… Buildings By: Cindy Woodworth The Historic Buildings Exhibit shows photos of buildings gone but not forgotten, as well as "then and now" photos of…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"In 1919 Stockholm decided to build a grade C high school. The school would be started in August when the boys from World War I returned."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"In 1925, Guilford’s High School building was destroyed by fire. Students used the Town Hall for their classrooms until a new high school was built in…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"… students would ride the passenger train to attend high school in nearby Caribou. The booming businesses in Stockholm relied on the train to…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The last class graduated from the “old high school” that year, and a new one was erected at the edge of the village."

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

"Twenty-one dollars was eventually raised, a school board elected, and the first school was kept in the loft of Capt John Bennett’s shed until the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… rail system would provide a means for students to attend high school in nearby Caribou and spectators to attend the Winter Carnivals in the 1930s."

Guilford, Maine - RESOURCES

"Piscataquis Community High School Yearbooks - 1950 To present GUILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Newsletters, Calendars, Scrapbooks, News articles…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"Rusty Sweeney, the math teacher at the high school. He was the main reason we even have a soccer team here at PCHS today. Mr."

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"Guilford High School girls basketball team, Guilford, 1908Guilford Historical Society Guilford A."

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 2 of 2

"… Secretary/Treasurer Piscataquis Community Middle School – The six-town school district “supplied” seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… broke, and the logs washed over the dam during high water, smashing nearly every window in the first two stories of both of the textile mills…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"It serves students from New Sweden, Stockholm, Westmanland, and Madawaska Lake. As part of the New Sweden School's Maine History, Local History unit…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Tensions ran high on both sides of the issue and finally, the National Guard was called in to maintain peace until the matter could be quieted."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"They attended local schools in Appleton, but Richardson Johnson had to give up school early to make a living by farming and later manufacturing shoes."

Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy

"It was a boarding as well as day school. Its board of trustees and management, some of them clergymen, were affiliated with the Congregational…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"From his highly prominent location, he could view his 300-foot square-rigged yacht “Alcedo” swaying at anchor moored in the deeper waters of the East…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Morgan’s Grammar of the English Language, a highly regarded work which was published by the Hallowell firm of Goodale and Cheever in 1814."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeastland Hotel

"X Sources: English II Students of Presque Isle High School.” Presque Isle Profiles.” Presque Isle."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"By 1906, a new High School building was built on High Street. This building eventually would be named for Arthur D."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… the same location with the second Town Hall and High School. Today, the old town hall is the home of the Islesboro Historical Society, established…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"The high school is also a big source of pride for everyone in the Lincoln area. If the school was never built, no one would have had the chance to…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"… feet on Second Street, rose five stories high, stretched one-hundred and twenty-three feet--forty-seven feet of the main building and a two-story…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… member worked with an Islesboro Central School high school senior to write the Narrative/Historical Overview about Islesboro’s history."