Academy Hall North Yarmouth Academy
by Elizabeth Dow
Title
Academy Hall North Yarmouth Academy
Artist
Elizabeth Dow
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Photograph - Photographs
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North Yarmouth Academy (also known as "NYA") is an independent, co-ed, college preparatory day school serving students from early childhood education to Postgraduate. NYA was founded in 1814, in what was then North Yarmouth, Maine, prior to the 1849 secession that established Yarmouth, the town in which the school now stands. You see, Maine was part of Massachusetts and there was already a Yarmouth Massachusetts on Cape Cod, so Yarmouth, was called North Yarmouth. After Maine became its own state, Yarmouth was called Yarmouthville. My great grandmother wrote diaries and called her town Yarmouthville, not Yarmouth.
This is Academy Hall, located on the NYA's campus across the street from the main building. When I went to school here, it was the library. I love the older brick buildings on Yarmouth's Main Street. There is so much character and history!
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June 27th, 2022
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