[6] Jefferson supplied a handwritten letter from George Washington, which Cook kept as a private keepsake; it was sold at auction in 2006 for $273,600.

[2] The celebrated painter Rufus Porter, who would go on to found Scientific American, enrolled at Fryeburg Academy in 1804.

[9] Fryeburg Academy has always been a co-ed institution, although men and women received different instruction in the school's early years.

In the early morning hours of October 12, 2005, a fire destroyed the Gibson Gymnasium at Fryeburg Academy.

[14] Financier Bion R. Cram, an alumnus, bequeathed $15 million to help rebuild the school's facilities and establish scholarships for students.