Keywords: Mottoes
Item 68685
Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1886
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1887-12-19 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 68722
Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1912
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1912 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 151716
First Baptist Church, Portland, 1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907 Location: Portland Client: First Baptist Church Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law
"… eastern-most state seemed to be living up to its motto, "Dirigo" (I lead) and, on paper at least, it stayed dry through National Prohibition."
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times
"How very apt is the motto used by Hampden Academy which came from John Hampden’s home county of Buck’s which is “Vestigia nulla retrorsum”—No…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900
"Pluribus Unum” (“out of many, one,” the motto that appeared in the Great Seal of the United States of America in 1782) proudly on her stern."
