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Description
Barns and some of the livestock at the Valley Farm at Pownal State School in New Gloucester.
One of two farms at the state-operated facility for developmentally disabled persons that provided meat and produce for the facility that by the late 1930s had more than 1,000 residents.
Some of the residents worked on the farms.
About This Item
- Title: Barns, Valley Farm, New Gloucester, ca. 1937
- Creation Date: circa 1937
- Subject Date: circa 1937
- Location: New Gloucester, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 24.5 cm
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Barns
- Farms--Maine--New Gloucester
- Pineland Farms, Inc. (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Pineland Hospital and Training Center (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Pineland Center (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Hospitals--Maine--New Gloucester
- Mental institutions--Maine--New Gloucester
Other Keywords
- Maine School for the Feeble-Minded (1908-1925)
- Pineland Center (1973-1996)
- Pineland Hospital and Training Center (1957-1973)
- Pownal State School (1925-1957)
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New Gloucester Historical SocietyPO Box 531, New Gloucester, ME 04260
(207) 926-3260
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