Golden Trojans Traditional Cache
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In the early 1970's Thornton Academy's athletic teams became known as the Golden Trojans.
With this leg of the Eastern Trail beginning at the Student Parking Lot of Thornton Academy we decided to place this series of caches as a tribute to our Alma Mater, Dear Old T.A.. Each cache is named for a key feature of the Thornton Academy Campus. In 1885 8 acres of land was purchased on the corner of Main Street and Fairfield Street in Saco, Maine as the future site of Thornton Academy. The plans for the new school building were designed and it officially opened on September 6, 1889 and began its school year three days later with a class of 108 students. Today the original building is referred to as the Main Building.
Over the course of the next fifty years, several buildings were added to the grounds: the Charles Cutts Gookin Thornton Building in 1903, the headmaster's home in 1905, the George Addison Emery Gymnasium in 1913, and the Main Building Annex in 1931. Starting in the late '50s and continuing to the early seventies, a spurt of buildings were added because of enrollment increases related to the post-WWII baby boom: the John S. Locke Building, the William Linnell Gymnasium, the Edith Scamman Science Building, and an Industrial Arts Building. In 1996 54,000 square feet were added, linking the Main Building with the Scamman Science Building,and adding the Mary Hyde Library, the Helen Atkinson Dining Commons, the Harry Garland Auditorium. Because the Academy has grown to nearly 80 acres and with its numerous beautiful buildings and grounds, it more resembles a university campus than a traditional American high school.
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