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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"(Before Yarmouth seceded in 1849, there were eighteen!) These schoolhouses were very local institutions; students who lived within a mile's distance…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"A schoolhouse, the Creek School, located near the creek overlooking Broad Cove, provided education for area students."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the town boasted 32 school districts, mostly one-room schoolhouses. In John S.C. Abbott’s History of Maine, Farmington was touted as a community…"