Keywords: Ricker Classical Academy
Item 103829
Dinning Hall at Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 9617
Ricker Classical Institute production, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1926 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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