Category: Social Movements & Services, Civic & political activity, Civic groups
Item 10110
Benjamin Randall Store, Pownal, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Pownal Scenic and Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Pownal Media: Photographic print
Item 10731
Knights of Phythias Hall, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Abbot Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Abbot Media: Photographic print
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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.
