The History of Falmouth Schools' Campus

The Campus Today Courtesy of Falmouth Schools We were asked to reconstruct the narrative for the Falmouth Schools campus as well as the adjacent parcels.  Our report (at right) shares what we learned as we rediscovered the stories of the people who lived on the land where Falmouth Schools now stand.

It is customary for us to cite references for those seeking more information.  This narrative was laboriously reconstructed bit by bit from land records found in the Cumberland and York Registries of Deeds supplemented with family history information largely from Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, the Portland Press Herald archives, and published genealogies (with the volumes for the Adams, Field and Merrill families linked on our Falmouth Family References page).  The most useful sources were the contemporary which gave us snapshots in time of the land and, in some cases, who lived there.  These can be found on our Falmouth Historical Maps page.

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