Keywords: two-room school
Item 13541
Brooklin Village School, ca. 1948
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1948 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 81583
School at South Waterford, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Waterford Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Waterford Media: Photographic print
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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.
Exhibit
In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"A special feature was a new handicapped accessible classroom for the Severe and Profoundly Challenged Program students. National Blue Ribbon School…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"The school was divided into nine grades in two rooms. Enrollment in the first year was twenty-eight students."
