Keywords: private boarding school
Item 35121
Re-dedication of Thornton Academy, Saco, 1889
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1889 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 29306
Laughton School, Hallowell, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Joan Mosher Hague through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
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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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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.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools
"The May sisters, Julia and Sara, operated a private school for girls in Farmington, known as Wendall Institute, for 13 years until 1881."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School
"… also made for boarding students with “respectable private families,...at from $1.75 to $2.50 per week,” and with the Androscoggin Railroad to…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
