Keywords: Bangor's Broadway Historic District
Item 35391
John Bapst High School, Bangor, ca. 1930
Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1930 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
Exhibit
John Bapst High School was dedicated in September 1928 to meet the expanding needs of Roman Catholic education in the Bangor area. The co-educational school operated until 1980, when the diocese closed it due to decreasing enrollment. Since then, it has been a private school known as John Bapst Memorial High School.
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"… would continue to spread up French Street and Broadway as far as Broadway Park. A late night rain helped firefighters gain the upper hand on the…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Print. Vickery, James B. Made in Bangor. Bangor: Bangor Historical Society, 1984, Print. Zelz, Abigail E. and Marilyn Zoidis. Woodsmen and Whigs."
