LC Subject Heading: Town Halls
Item 16435
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 17688
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 151018
Preliminary Sketches for Changes in Town Hall, Freeport, 1920-1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1930 Location: Freeport Client: Freeport Town Hall Architect: Poor & Thomas
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
