Keywords: one-room school
Item 20237
Central School, New Sweden, 1938
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print
Item 7278
Dunkertown School, South Otisfield, ca. 1924
Contributed by: Otisfield Historical Society Date: circa 1924 Location: Otisfield; Otisfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses
Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.
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.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools
"The May School A unique early school was known as the May School. The May sisters, Julia and Sara, operated a private school for girls in Farmington…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools
"… following year, the high school had outgrown the one room and was moved next door to the second floor of the Town Hall, where it was to remain…"
Story
Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
