Keywords: Saccarappa B.
Item 13181
Main Street, Westbrook looking West ca. 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print
Item 148262
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1804 Location: Portland; Cape Elizabeth; Westbrook; Gorham; Scarborough Media: ink on paper
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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.
Exhibit
Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
