Keywords: North Neighborhood School
Item 81094
North Neighborhood School, Monson, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Item 16966
North Union School, Cooper, 1905
Contributed by: Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Cooper Media: Photographic print
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
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"Just ½ mile north of Dunn's Corner is Crockett's Corner, a quiet crossroads that was another early North Yarmouth settlement."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"… was owned and run by many of the farmers in the neighborhood, each running a certain length of time each season, or until a sufficient amount of…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
