Keywords: Western Maine Normal School
Item 64331
Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1880 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 64267
Principal C.C. Rounds, Farmington State Normal School, 1868
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1868 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
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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.
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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.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School
"Founding of the Farmington State Normal School Normal Schools (the now-obsolete term once used to describe institutions whose purpose it was to…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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