Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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THE TWIN SCHOOLS THE TWIN SCHOOLS Colonial America, changed by the Revolution into a prosperous young Republic, began to expand its physical and cultural resources. Falmouth now became the City of l'ortland and one of the busiest ports on the seaboard. Large homes had been built by prosperous business men. The merchant and the mariner now man- aged the wealth and government of the city, and no longer did the clergy have the prominent part that their predecessors had had in the attairs of govermnent. The school of Stephen Longfellow had only been the beginning of a growing school system that, in the year 1830, was to build the first of what is now remem- bered as the Twin Schools, the second following in the early thirties. The panel, entitled The Twin Schools, has as its center the two buildings then located at Spring and Oak Streets, one built in 1830 and the other soon after. :Xt the extreme right of the picture is Commodore Edward Preble, redoubtable naval lighter and member of a family long preeminent in naval affairs, and in the center is Schoolmaster jackson, a famed educator of the day, for whom it is believed the present jackson School on Forest Avenue was named, lt was at this time that Schoolmaster jackson was instituting the monitorial system in the gram- mar schools, and adding to the three R's geography, the classics, grammar, and some science. The costumes of the ladies and gentlemen of the period and the ship's sails seen in the background are again symbolic of the importance of the port's greatest industry. The two other panels will have more modern themes, recording scenes in the present curriculum of Portland High School. l11l 3

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