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Eastern State Normal School

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5330495 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Eastern State Normal School was a college located in Castine, Maine. It operated between 1867 and 1942.

Editorial summary

“Eastern State Normal School” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eastern, State and Normal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1867, 1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1867. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eastern, State and Normal.
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Why this record matters

“Eastern State Normal School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eastern, State and Normal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5330495. Authority coordinates are 44.390, -68.804. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1867 and 1942.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Eastern State Normal School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.