Keywords: School desks
Item 7334
Scribner Hill School, Otisfield, 1924
Contributed by: Otisfield Historical Society Date: 1924 Location: Otisfield; Otisfield Media: Photographic print
Item 10395
Students writing, North School, Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Photoprint
Exhibit
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools
When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.
Exhibit
Young men and women in the 19th century often went away from home -- sometimes for a few months, sometimes for longer periods -- to attend academies, seminaries, or schools run by individuals. While there, they wrote letters home, reporting on boarding arrangements and coursework undertaken, and inquired about the family at home.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools
"… spent about two-week’s pay to purchase their own desks to assist in furnishing their rooms. A town project was reportedly never so well organized."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott
"Jacob and Lyman Abbott's Desk, Farmington, ca. 1830Farmington Historical Society Jacob Abbott was the second child of Jacob and Lydia Abbot."
Story
Classroom Time Capsule
by Anna Bennett
On March 12, 2020, I left my classroom not knowing I wouldn't return again for months.
