Maine Memory Network

Purington Hall, Farmington State Normal School, 1936

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1936 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Purington family, Farmington, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1890 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Stable for Capt. F. H. Purington, Bowdoinham, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Bowdoinham Client: F. H. Purington Architect: George M. Coombs

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.

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"Captain Purington of Topsham and Captain Blanchard of exhibit the stern bearded features of men experienced in commanding sailing vessels."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Cutler Memorial Library dedication, Farmington, 1903

"George Purington, Principal of the Farmington Normal School and President of the Library Association, delivered the welcoming remarks."