Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . e, were not of thisclass. Some were grossly ignorant and some depravedin character. Such persons are to be found everywhere,but such do not usually control the public mind, and cer-tainly did not do so here. From the time of its incorporation to the present has always had a warm interest and a justifiablepride in its schools. It adopted the principle of gradedschools in 1840. Very few other towns in the Stateaccepted this principle so early. Indeed, many of themhave not yet adopted it. The town als
Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . e, were not of thisclass. Some were grossly ignorant and some depravedin character. Such persons are to be found everywhere,but such do not usually control the public mind, and cer-tainly did not do so here. From the time of its incorporation to the present has always had a warm interest and a justifiablepride in its schools. It adopted the principle of gradedschools in 1840. Very few other towns in the Stateaccepted this principle so early. Indeed, many of themhave not yet adopted it. The town also discontinued thedistrict system some years before towns were by lawrequired so to do. The high school was establishedsometime previous to 1850, and has been continued eversince. It has usually had a superior class of teachers,many of whom have since attained distinction in educa-tional circles or in other walks of life. The Eastern State Normal School was established herein 1867, with Mr. Granville T. Fletcher as principal. Hewas succeeded by Mr. Eolliston Woodbury in 1879. and. Later Annals of the Town. 61 at his death, in 1888, the present incumbent, Mr. AlbertP. Richardson, was elected to the office. This school hasalways had a reputable corps of teachers, and their workAvill compare favorably with that of the other Normalschools of Maine. Its prosperity, under its present man-agement, appears to be steadily increasing. Althoughthis school has in many ways proved very beneficial tothe town, and while the whole town feels a strong inter-est in its success, yet it must be confessed by any intel-ligent observer that it has also done some harm to ourtown schools by drawing scholars from schools fromwhich they could not well be spared. This is the natu-ral and inevitable result of the establishment of a Stateinstitution of this kind in a small town. The fact that Castine was the fourth town in the Dis-trict of Maine to possess a newspaper of its own, speaksvolumes for the char
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