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Keywords: Class of 1898

Historical Items

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Item 27213

Edna Harmon, Saco, 1898

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1898 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 102936

Class of 1898, Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, 1898

Contributed by: Lincoln Academy Date: 1898 Location: Newcastle Media: Photographic print

Item 18285

U.S.S. Montauk, Portland Harbor, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1898 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women

Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.

Site Pages

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Opened to an eagerly awaiting public in June 1898, at the peak of America’s “Gilded Age,” Riverside Park offered a dizzying array of entertainment."

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"The telephone came to Lincoln in 1898, and people have been using it ever since. The first form of a telephone came to Lincoln by the switchboard on…"

My Maine Stories

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.