Keywords: convent chapel
Item 10189
Daughters of Wisdom Convent Chapel, St. Agatha, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
Item 9852
Notre Dame de la Sagesse Convent, St. Agatha, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Postcard
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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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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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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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