Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… than a common school education, could prepare for college admission. The sisters provided an opportunity never before available in Strong."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… entered the office upon graduation from Bowdoin College in 1901. His older son Frederick Hamilton Coombs joined the firm in 1908 after studying…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… main family home Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his brother Ralph."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"While she was treating his injuries, she found her interest in the medical field. After Charlotte graduated from college, she moved to Arizona."

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… the 1955 Bangor Auditorium saw NBA, minor league, college and high school basketball, high school and college graduations, fairs fair events…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… this money for things like religious purposes, colleges, hospitals, libraries, and even orphanages."

Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"Instead of going off for further education in college, he chose to serve on his own free will. He was a man from Lincoln that went to fight for the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"After medical school at Kirksville (Missouri) College of Osteopathy, he completed his residency at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Academy, later called Maine State Teachers College. She is said to have had a poem published in the Boston Olive Branch at the age of 15."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… worked summers in the industry while attending college and then worked full time in several departments learning the manufacturing process."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… years it was known as Farmington State Teacher’s College, but the name was changed to Farmington State College in 1965."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"(Butler’s History of Farmington) Both Colby College and Bowdoin College have some of his early music, which includes some musical presentations, in…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Anton Marquardt of Colby College (in Waterville, Maine), formerly of Lübeck University, Germany,” continued the Herald coverage."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"It contains William and Mary’s College, the oldest in the US, excepting Harvard. The village is nearly as large as Thomaston and very pleasantly…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"For Maine, its college would be founded in 1865 just eight miles up river from Bangor. Initially known as the Maine State College, Maine's public…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"Fortunately, my son was home from college and his car didn’t go in the garage so we were able to have some transportation until we removed the trees…"

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

"… Commonwealth made a large land grant to Bowdoin College consisting of four townships, one of which is now the incorporated Town of Guilford."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Maine at Farmington, a small public liberal arts college, Farmington continues to attract students, scholars, and academics to this otherwise…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… institution at which pupils are fitted for any college in the land. And yet there are men now living in each one of these villages who can remember…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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