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Category Archives: People
Remembering Dorothy Shaw Libbey
By Linda Snow McLoon Over the years a number of individuals have made major contributions toward preserving Scarborough’s history, but no one has done more toward saving our past for future generations than Dorothy Shaw Libbey. Long before she and … Continue reading
Updates: March 2022
Education Grammar School – Added Beech Ridge School – Students Oak Hill School Oak Hill School – Second Grade – Sep 1941 asdfasdf asdfasdf SHS Class of 1951 – UPDATED with Class … Continue reading
Posted in Students and Teachers, Surname Files
Tagged Beech Ridge, Tilton
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Oak Hill School – Second Grade – Sep 1941
Transcribed Text of “Oak Hill School, Sep 1941 – 2nd Grade – (back).jpeg” Back Row — Gwendolyn Mucci Lela May Manter Joan McKeen Marion Harmon Betty White Virginia McLaughlin Calista Pooler Caroline Olsen Georgianna Martin Second Row … Continue reading
Posted in Oak Hill, People, Students and Teachers
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SAVING SCARBOROUGH’S LAST DISTRICT SCHOOL
By Linda Snow McLoon Before there were big yellow school busses, school children in Scarborough for the most part walked to school. To keep the distances from their homes doable, back in the 1800s Scarborough had over a dozen one-room … Continue reading
Posted in Beech Ridge School, Education, Newspaper Clippings, North Scarborough, Projects, Students and Teachers
Tagged Beech Ridge School, Hearn, Pillsbury
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More High School Yearbooks Added
Thanks to Oklahoma Corrections Industries and their High School Yearbook project, we were able to digitize, OCR, and post five more Scarborough High School Yearbooks. The Four Corners – 1956 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook. The Four Corners – … Continue reading
1957, 1965, & 1967 Scarborough High School Yearbooks
Our thanks to the Oklahoma Correctional Insustries for their wonderful job of digitizing several of our yearbook. Newly digitized by DCI are the below Scarborough High School Yearbooks. I’ve uploaded them to our website (Education Page), the Internet Archive (Archive.Org) … Continue reading
Posted in Students and Teachers
Tagged Education, High school, Yearbooks
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General Lafayette’s Visit to Scarborough
by Linda Snow McLoon The Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was a French aristocrat and military officer who came to the aid of the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. He developed a friendship with George Washington, who put him in … Continue reading
Event – Joss & Moulton Dispute – 24 Jul 1830
Whereas a dispute has arisen between Nathaniel Joss of Scarborough and Ruben S Moulton of Scarborough about their respective rights in and obligations to maintain a partition fence in the line between their several lands from the high way running … Continue reading
Organizations – Methodist Society 1817-1819
TOWN OF SCARBOROUGH COLLECTION CHURCHES: METHODIST SOCIETY – 1817-1819 Paper certifying that Philemon Rand a member of the Methodists of Scarborough signed by Joshua Fabyan. 17 March 1817 – Front – Back. Same as above except certifying Simon Libby. 7 … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, Organizations, People
Tagged Methodist
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The Wreck of the Sagamore
By Linda McLoon* It was snowing on Saturday evening, January 24, 1934, when the steel freighter, Sagamore, left Portland Harbor, bound for Boston with a hold filled mainly with large bolts of woolen material and oilcloth. The storm had intensified … Continue reading
Posted in Prout's Neck, Ships, Students and Teachers
Tagged Sagamore, salvage, shipwreck
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