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Longfellow School

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Longfellow School, School Street, Sanford, ca 1895. This school was built on the site of an earlier school in 1888. From then until 1902 it served as both a high school and grammar school for Sanford village. It continued as a grammar after the new Sanford High School in the Emerson School building was opened in September 1902. The building was demolished in the 1970s. In 2005, this location was the parking lot next to the Sanford Post Office. now part of the back street grill parking lot


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Building, Window, Black, Fence

Backstory and Context

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Longfellow School, School Street, Sanford, ca 1895. This school was built on the site of an earlier school in 1888. From then until 1902 it served as both a high school and grammar school for Sanford village. It continued as a grammar after the new Sanford High School in the Emerson School building was opened in September 1902. The building was demolished in the 1970s. In 2005, this location was the parking lot next to the Sanford Post Office.

Sources

Garrett DeVoe part of the Springvale historical socitey and paul augers civics class