Below is a presentation on Colby College’s old downtown campus. You can scroll through it to learn Colby’s old buildings and the decision to move the campus from downtown Waterville up to Mayflower Hill.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the Colby Special Collections department, who provided all the images in the project, in addition to various old newspaper clippings from the Waterville Morning Sentinel which provided quotes and information on individual buildings.
Thank you also to Earl Smith’s Water Village (2018) which provided a general overview of Colby’s history and transition from its downtown campus to its current one, and Earle G. Shettleworth’s Postcard History Series: Waterville (2013) which provided information on when each old Colby building was built and other general information on each building.