Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Up until 1817 all schools were private. It is worthy to note that the education ball started rolling with a mere $21.00."

John Bapst Memorial High School

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"The May sisters, Julia and Sara, operated a private school for girls in Farmington, known as Wendall Institute, for 13 years until 1881."

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

"The green school remained a grammar school until it ceased February, 1966. Sometime in the 1970s it became the Fernwood Grange Hall."

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

"… also made for boarding students with “respectable private families,...at from $1.75 to $2.50 per week,” and with the Androscoggin Railroad to…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs Left with no reliable connection to the mainland and few secure sources…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"William S. Cohen graduated from Bangor High in 1958 where he was named to an all-state high school basketball team and was inducted into the New…"

Maine Central Institute

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Transportation was now by privately-owned school bus; L. J. York owned a bus that brought students from Mosher and Perham Hills and Wesley Gardner…"

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

"… road is closed to public traffic and the area is privately owned. The West Village area has had a long and interesting history and will without a…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"School was first held in private homes, with the teachers “boarded around” as was customary. Eventually there were twenty district schools in various…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Timothy Belcher died in 1890, and is buried in a private cemetery in Farmington with his parents. Margaret continued to live in Farmington with one…"

Skowhegan Community History - Bloomfield Academy

"… was to create the town's first high school as a private academy. A board of directors was appointed and among the members were Eli Weston, John…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - About This Project

"… by Maine Historical Society, under funding from a private foundation, to support community partnerships a few years after Maine Memory Network…"

Skowhegan Community History - Sister Communities

"… by Maine Historical Society, under funding from a private foundation, to support community partnerships in the first few years that Maine Memory…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… citation reads in part as follows: “On 4 July, Private First Class TRAFTON courageously and single handedly charged into a cave containing fifteen…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"During the 1840s, they established the privately-endowed Hallowell Female Benevolent Society, an organization that performed charitable work for more…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"Unfortunately schools, businesses, transportation systems, and the government were disrupted by the ice storm."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Interviews

"… and Tiffiny McCollett Interview of Judy Dawson, private home owner in Hallowell   Created by Mason Peaslee and Luke Armentrout Interview of Nancy…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… collected over the years and found their way into private collections as well as the Islesboro Historical Society."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"A few years later, in 1800, Surry's first private tuitioned school was established and twenty-six students worked under teacher Francis Simonds'…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"RANGER who served as a private soldier in the Civil War in the fifty-third Mass. Infantry and the sixth Maine Battery light artillery."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

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

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… the detail, and the combination of public and private – how business operated, how communities worked, how families lived."