Donate
Search the Scarborough Historical Society website
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 235 other subscribersMailing Address
Scarborough Historical Society
PO Box 156
Scarborough, ME, 04070-0156Categories
Archives
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- September 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
Author Archives: Don Taylor
70.14.17r – Typed transcription of a letter from N & M Tilton to their children 15 Dec 1845
Surname File – Tilton The original handwritten letter is misfiled/mislocated. This is an OCRed version of a 1970’s typed copy of the letter. Below is a plain text copy of the letter. 15 Dec. 1845 Dear children; We have been … Continue reading
Posted in Surname Files
Tagged Tilton
Comments Off on 70.14.17r – Typed transcription of a letter from N & M Tilton to their children 15 Dec 1845
70.14.17s – Typed copy of letter (missing) from N & M Tilton to their children 19 Jul 1846.
Surname File – Tilton The original handwritten letter is misfiled/mislocated. This is an OCRed version of a 1970’s typed copy of the letter. Below is a plain text copy of the letter. 19 July 1846 Dear Children, In anticipation of … Continue reading
Posted in Surname Files
Tagged Tilton
Comments Off on 70.14.17s – Typed copy of letter (missing) from N & M Tilton to their children 19 Jul 1846.
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
Comments Off on Updates: March 2022
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
Comments Off on Oak Hill School – Second Grade – Sep 1941
M.F. Tilton letter to C. L. Libby Esq. 18 Jun 1889 – 70.14.17.I
Click to Access PDF Varsion. Unformatted Transcription Text Below June 18th 1889 92 Cedar St. Bangor Dear Sir; Yours of the 11th inst was duly rec’d – I was pleased to know more definately your plan for that “contemplated History” … Continue reading
Posted in Surname Files
Tagged Tilton
Comments Off on M.F. Tilton letter to C. L. Libby Esq. 18 Jun 1889 – 70.14.17.I
January 2022 – Website Updates
Education High Schools The following yearbooks were uploaded to Digital Maine: Four Corners (Scarborough High School Yearbook) – 1949 to Digital Maine. Four Corners (Scarborough High School Yearbook) – 1959 to Digital Maine. Four Corners (Scarborough High School Yearbook) – … Continue reading
December 2021 – Website Updates
Education Grammar School Page I added a 1939 example of a Grammar School Certificate (Mary E Wright – 16 June 1939). High Schools I added: Class of 1905 – Graduation Exercises, Class of 1905, June 23rd at 8.00 P. M. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Organizations, Surname Files
Comments Off on December 2021 – Website Updates
Holiday Cheer at the Museum
Thank you to the Scarborough Garden Club, for the beautiful holiday wreaths to decorate the museum’s doors this year. Also, thank you to Joyce Alden for the boughs, berries, and ribbons used to decorate the window boxes. Photos by Joyce … Continue reading
Posted in Displays, Garden Club
Comments Off on Holiday Cheer at the Museum
Beech Ridge School Update – November 2021
BY KARLENE OSBORNE In the last update regarding Scarborough Historical Society’s restoration of the Beech Ridge School, I reported that $25,600 was needed to start the next phase of work. Since then, an anonymous donor has come forward with a … Continue reading
Posted in Beech Ridge School
Comments Off on Beech Ridge School Update – November 2021
Holiday Gift Suggestions
Books Dear Mrs. Libby is a collection of letters written by 144 Scarborough men and women to their former high school teacher, Mrs. Frances Libbey while they were serving in the Armed Forces during World War II. The letters were … Continue reading
Posted in For Sale
Comments Off on Holiday Gift Suggestions