Hinckley Good Will Home Historic District

US 201, Hinckley, Maine. County/parish: Somerset.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 09, 1987. NRIS 87000232.

36 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Hinckley Home-School-Farm
  • See Also:Quincy Building (L. C. Ba

From Wikipedia:

Good Will-Hinckley

Good Will-Hinckley is a charitable organization in Fairfield, Maine. Organized in 1889 by George W. Hinckley, the membership-driven organization is dedicated to educating youth and changing lives. It has a campus of more than 600 acres (240 ha) in Fairfield, on which it operates the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, a boarding and day school focused on agricultural and outdoor education, and the Glenn Stratton Learning Center, a day treatment school focused on children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. It is also home to the L. C. Bates Museum, one of the oldest natural history museums in Maine. They also provide residential services for the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, College students, Transitional Living students and residential treatment youth.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88687279

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