While renovating a 200-year-old academy building, workers found a treasure trove of secret notes and doodles from students in the early 1800s.
The building, constructed in 1806, originally acted as a private high school, but was eventually absorbed into the University of Southern Maine as the campus grew around it. As part of a multi-year-long renovation project on the building, construction workers ripped up rotten wood floors and walls, uncovering a bounty of old letters and papers.
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