EducationExhibit

These are the areas of our exhibits related to Education

Farmington Schools (all the schools in the area for 1st through 12th grades and their predecessors (one-room schoolhouses that weren't graded))

Jacob Abbot(t)

Carolyn Stone

John Stevens (graduate of Maine Normal School, went on to engineer the Panama Canal and other projects) -- does this belong in Education? Culture? where are the inventors going? Maybe that's the category he belongs in

The Normal School up to its current usage as University of Maine Farmington
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Here's a note from an email from Nancy that may prove helpful: " I found a little booklet used by Luther Whittier's mother - a penmanship book used in the "Schoolhouse built by Zina Greenwood on the Seamon Road". Now...THAT might be the schoolhouse we've been trying to ID on the Knowlton Corner Road. Now to find the actual spot..."

A note from Nancy: "Univ. of Maine was originally an "off-shoot" of Farmington Academy, that's important. And there was the Wendall Institute, and the May School for girls. We have some interesting things on that facility."