Maine Memory Network

View of Phippsburg Center, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Phippsburg Media: Glass Plate Negative

Georgetown Center, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Georgetown Media: Glass Plate Negative

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

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.