- City:
- Arrowsic, ME
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
A few New Deal projects helped relieve the effects of the Depression in this very small coastal town. Population 135 (1930 census) Pronunciation of Arrowsic is Ah-row-sick.
1933
Repair of Schoolhouse (CWA) : town share $50
School Superintendent report “The re-modeling of the entrance to the North School room has made a wonderful change in the appearance of the interior of the building. The additional floor space is much appreciated when community events are held in the schoolroom. We take this time to thank the Senior League members for their generous donation of $40.00 to help in the expense of the project. A note of thanks should be extended to Mr. Tarr for allowing a part of the C. W. A. appropriation to be used for the repair of the school building.”
1934
Repair of Schoolhouse CWA town share $100.15
Unspecified E.R.A. Project. Town share $38.65
Superintendent of Schools: “Hot lunches are being served this winter. The N. R. A. officials were thoughtful enough to assign beef soup to all the children who carried their lunches to school. This has been served two days each week. Milk is served other days as well as cocoa and baked potatoes donated by the parents”
Thanks to Peter Goodwin of the Patten Library in Bath for finding the former location of the North School and providing the sketch.
Source notes
Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Arrowsic
Local Source
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on March 8, 2018.
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Matteo Magliozzi
This site is still existing, I see it every time I head to Georgetown, Maine. When my dad was a kid he tried to climb out through the chimney with his friends but his boot fell off and it still remains in the fireplace today.