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Item 52065

Good Will Schools Senior Class, Fairfield, 1917

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1917 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 100944

Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: circa 1865 Location: Bangor Media: Ink and watercolor on paper

Item 96

Portland Schools Americanization Classes, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150796

Arthur R. Gould School Building for the State School for Boys, South Portland, 1921

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: South Portland Client: State of Maine Architect: Harry S. Coombs

Item 151760

Opportunity Farm fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.

Item 151909

Various buildings for State School For Boys, South Portland, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896–1908 Location: South Portland Client: State of Maine Architect: Coombs & Gibbs
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Online Exhibits

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Away at School: Letters Home

Young men and women in the 19th century often went away from home -- sometimes for a few months, sometimes for longer periods -- to attend academies, seminaries, or schools run by individuals. While there, they wrote letters home, reporting on boarding arrangements and coursework undertaken, and inquired about the family at home.

Exhibit

John Bapst High School

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

Writing on the board, North School, Portland, ca. 1915

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Site Pages

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John Bapst Memorial High School

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"Abbott (not related) after Samuel P. and his wife’s death in 1849, and continued the plan of the originator, developing a school of picturesque…"

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Scholar's Report Book cover, Surry, 1937 - 1938

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"The school deteriorated badly in the 1940s, and finally, after the chemical toilets froze up and other maintenance problems occurred, the school was…"