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Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls

"Maine Industrial School for Girls Industrial School for Girls, Winthrop Hill, Hallowell, ca. 1919Hubbard Free Library The purpose of the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919

"Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description Group portrait of the 1919…"

John Bapst Memorial High School

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Thereafter they were convinced to move their school to Strong. The May School was erected for them next to their home on Upper Main Street, presently…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

"The building at left is the girls' school. It was built in 1849. Martin wrote of the schools, "it was the intention to not be out done by any…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"The Parsons School closed in June of 1943 and reverted to the Dyer family who had previously owned the land."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools

"… registers 25 students (seventeen boys and eight girls) were listed. Grade 4 had seven students. Grade 5 had nine students."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Lucy Belcher opened a school for girls named The Willows in 1872. Her father, Hannibal Belcher, built a ‘commodious building’ for Lucy and she opened…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"Guilford High School girls basketball team, Guilford, 1908Guilford Historical Society Guilford A."

Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy

"Atlantic Reporter, Volume 82, page 434, 1912. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ Maine Industrial School for Girls."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"Vernon, a high school for girls, with his brother in Boston. In 1834, Jacob moved from Boston to Roxbury, MA."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 604-650

"Littlefield Bangor Girls First Select School Third Parish Church Prof. George Shepard First Baptist Church Thomas A. Hill"

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"… Center began as the Maine Industrial School For Girls. The purpose according to its goal statement was, "not a place of punishment, to which its…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… Street turns to the left just past the little girl standing alone on the sidewalk. Straw and Martin Insurance and C.A. Smith Photography, ca."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"There was one team for the boys and two for girls. The Hampden Academy Gossip, June 1912, stated that the boys in their first year “won over half the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"Some of the groups were Masons, Rainbow Girls, N.E.O.P, the K. P. Club, and many more. The new building had multiple sections in it, like the…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… did not just have ski teams but hockey, boys and girls basketball, gymnastic and track teams. Even thought they had other sports, the winter ones…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"State School for Girls, Hallowell, ca. 1920Maine State Archives When it became apparent that the effects of industrialization included the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"12, 1863) “Industrial School for Girls-National Historic District Hallowell, Me.” Registration Form. Washington, D.C.:U.S."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… was ill and became an invalid and, "this little girl assumed the house work cooked nice bread, meats, pies, cakes &co & found time to attend…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl. It is now the home base for a local boat yard."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… the curriculum and organized intramural boys’ and girls’ sports teams. Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"The sisters operated a private school for girls in Farmington, known as Wendall Institute, for 13 years."