Cumberland Elementary School
The Drowne Farm was a one-hundred-acre plot that remained as originally laid out by the first surveyors of Cumberland, which was willed to the town in 1907 by Elizabeth Sturdivant Drowne for educational purposes.
Under the purview of Superintendent William H. Soule in 1950, a consolidated elementary school opened on the Drowne Farm for grades K-6, and a four-room school opened on Chebeague Island to replace the former system of one-room schoolhouses.
The Cumberland Elementary School contained nine classrooms, a hot lunch kitchen, a teacher’s room, an office, and an oil-fired steam heater in the basement. Despite this accomplishment, the 1960s saw an increased demand for school spaces as kindergarten and elementary classes grew in size. The building served as Cumberland Town Hall for a period, and has since been turned into senior housing.
Cumberland Elementary School
