Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"After a number of years a new district, Number Eight, was located on the Bluff. The Parker School, Islesboro, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… viable proposals from Paris Academy, Gorham Seminary, Farmington Academy, and Litchfield Academy."

Maine Central Institute

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"After the connection between the two was dissolved, Hampden Academy really began to prosper. For the next seven years the school was under the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"It also served as the Bangor Theological Seminary until 1819 when Isaac Davenport gave the Seminary seven acres of land in Bangor."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"It also served as the Bangor Theological Seminary until 1819 when Isaac Davenport gave the Seminary seven acres of land in Bangor."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Holyoke Seminary. After teaching school in Kentucky for a time they returned to Maine. The sisters operated a private school for girls in Farmington…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… and to Bates College (called the Maine State Seminary until 1863) from 1862–1863. He attended Norwich University in Vermont from 1863-1864."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… was involved in the schools and the Theological Seminary Institution, which moved to the Knox Hotel in 1838. Prison Corner, Thomaston, ca."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… Enoch Pond, a founder of the Bangor Theological Seminary. In the early 1800's, Pond published a book against slavery."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Bangor Theological Seminary professor and later its president Enoch Pond published Slavery and the Bible in 1850."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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