Pages Updated – December 2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Don Taylor

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

Library | People | Organizations

Lions Club

Scarborough Lions Club presents – “School Daze” – 1949

Library | Places | Businesses

Restaurants

Valle’s Steak House (Dunstan) – Menu c. 1959

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Pages Updated – November 2024

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

Library | Education | High Schools

Added: Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1937
Added: Commencement Exercises of Class of 1986

Library

Places

Under Dunstan, I added – Program – Dunstan Days – 1973

Videos

Added: The Lost Pequawket Tribe of the Saco River – Presented by Brenton Hill on November 3rd, 2024.

https://youtu.be/t43N7kkfg-I

Research

Deeds

Added Scarborough Deed Extracts (1630 to 1759) from the Linwood Dyer 2023.01.48

Finding Aids

Added: Digital Collection Index provides information about over 13,000 images of people, places, and clippings available. To see the images, please visit the Historical Society or contact us at “info@scarboroughhistoricalsociety.org.”

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Pages Updated – October 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

Library | Education

Added:

Program: SHS Commencement Program – Class of 1941
Program: SHS Commencement Program – Class of 1943
Program: SHS Commencement Program – Class of 1946
Program: SHS Commencement Program – Class of 1948
Program: Class Night – T.V. Spectacular – June 9, 1961
Program: One Act Play Contest (Section 14) – SHS, March 20, 1962
Calendar: Scarborough School Calendar 1962-1963 (Schools, Directory)
Program: Band Concert – SHS & Bristol HS Bands – May 8, 1965

Library | People | Organizations

I added:

The Order of Patrons of Husbandry (Grange)

Booklet: “The Grange Initiate & Declaration of Purposes of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry – 1925.”
Booklet: “North Scarboro Grange 4th Annual Fair – October 3, 1917“
Booklet: “North Scarboro Grange – Sixteenth Annual Fair – Sept. 24, 1930.”
Music: “State of Maine, My State of Maine” by George Thornton Edwards (Words and Music).
Pamphlet: Grange Friends Family Fund & You.
Pamphlet: The Maine Grange
Yearbook: Cumberland County, Pomona Grange – Yearbook 1951
Various: Dunstan Grange
Various: North Scarborough Grange
Various: Grange Newsclippings
Miscellaneous Grange Archive Images.
Cross references (Pinkie)

Library | Videos

Added two videos:

Video of the October 2, 2024 meeting/presentation. “Paupers’ Graves: Scarborough’s Town Farm Cemetery, 1867-1891” by Ron Romano to YouTube.

“Like Father, Like Sons: Scarborough’s Burbank Family in the Revolutionary War.” by Linda Snow McLoon – February 19, 2024 at the Blue Point Congregational Church.

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Pages Updated – August & September 2024

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

Library | Education

Added

Booklet: Souvenir of (Dunstan Grammar School) 1926-1927.
Program: Commencement Exercises of Class of 1894 – June 29, 1894
Program: Graduating Exercises of Scarborough Grammar Schools (Dunstan & Oak Hill) 1948.
Program: Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1939 – June 11-16, 1939.
Program: Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1956 – June 1 -12, 1956.
Program: Graduation Exercises – Elwood G Bessey School – June 12, 1957.
Program: Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1961 – June 3 -12, 1961.
Program: Graduation Exercises – Elwood G Bessey School – June 14, 1961.
Program: Commencement Program Class of 1965 – May 21 – June 14, 1965.
Program: Commencement Exercises, Class of 1969 – May 17 – June 10, 1969.
Program: Commencement Exercises of Class of 1975 – May 29 to June 13, 1975.
Program: Scarborough High School Convocation – June 11, 1975.1978 – SHS Commencement.
Program: Commencement Exercises of Class of 1978 – June 3-16, 1978 – 2024.13.36

Library | People | Surname Files

To T, I added — Titus.

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SOCIETY RECEIVES GRANT

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Don Taylor

FROM SCARBOROUGH COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

by Karlene Osborne

Photo of Dr. Steve Spaulding accepting the check from the Chamber for the His- torical Society.
Dr. Steve Spaulding accepteding the check from the Chamber for the Historical Society.
Photo: Dave Therrien

We are pleased to announce that the Scarborough Community Chamber of Commerce has awarded the Scarborough Historical Society a $2,500 grant, which will be used toward the continuing restoration of the Beech Ridge Schoolhouse at 184 Holmes Road, Scarborough. A presentation ceremony was held on July 3rd at Memorial Park in recognition of the Chamber’s sponsorship of 25 seasons of Concerts in the Park. Scarborough Historical Society is one of ten local organizations honored by the Chamber for helping to make Scarborough a better place to live.

Beech Ridge Schoolhouse is the last 19th-century schoolhouse in Scarborough not razed or repurposed. Once restoration is complete, our intent is to use the schoolhouse for educational programs for children and also have the building available for use by small community groups

Photo of the Beech Ridge School.
Beech Ridge School Photo: Karlene Osborne.

The school renovation budget originally set in 2020 is still the goal. To date $186, 500 has been raised. The Scar- borough Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organiza- tion, making donations tax deductible. Please consider sending a donation to the Scarborough Historical Society, PO Box 156, Scarborough, ME 04070, or donating at www.gofundme.com/SHS-Restore-Beech-Ridge-School. Many thanks to those who support this important local historical project. For more information, contact us at 207-885-9997, scarboroughhist@gmail.com, or visit the Museum at 647 US Route 1. The Museum is open 9:AM to noon every Tuesday and the second Saturday of the month.

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