FARMINGTON — A new park at 411 High St. needs a name. 

The Board of Selectmen decided Tuesday to ask the public for their suggestions.

Ideas will be accepted until Sept. 5. The board will consider names during its Sept. 9 meeting.

Residents can call the Town Office with name ideas or drop them off, email them to [email protected] or mail them to 153 Farmington Falls Road, Farmington, ME 04938. More information will be posted on the town website, www.farmington-maine.org.

After voters at the March town meeting said no to selling the former town garage lot, the board listened to their ideas for the space, especially those to make it a gateway to Farmington from Route 2.

A donation of nearly $74,000 was accepted in June from Richard Bjorn to landscape a park for the lot. 

An E.L. Vining & Son crew began work this summer on the area located at the corner of High Street and Farmington Falls Road.

The park is based on a sketch of ideas drawn up by Conservation Commission member Robert Zundel, a landscape architect.

Most of the plantings are in and it’s nearly finished, Selectman Stephan Bunker said Wednesday.

The board had no particular idea for a name and decided to count on the citizens to suggest one, he said.

The property was once the site of a neighborhood school called Norton Flat School. It was the third largest in town as of 1875, Nancy Porter told the board in a written history.

The need for the Norton Flat school diminished between 1910 and 1920. The Mallett School was built in 1929, she wrote.

A town garage was built on the property in 1939, which was replaced in 2006 with a new facility closer to the fairgrounds. The old town garage was torn down in 2007.

Based on the history of the lot, Porter suggested to selectmen that the park be called the “Norton Flat School House Park,” he said.

She also suggested signage and historical information about the property be available at the park.

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