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Historical Items

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Item 100411

Dormitory room at Bates College, Lewiston, ca. 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Lewiston Media: Glass Negative

Item 79292

Rules For Dormitory Rooms, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1945 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 149938

Student in bed, Farmington Normal School, 1923

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151760

Opportunity Farm fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.

Online Exhibits

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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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A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915

After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.

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Samantha Smith's Questions

Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.

Site Pages

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… some years of abandonment, it was used for a dormitory for Normal School students during the 1920’s and 1930’s."