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Inventory No:
GRN.91
Historic Name:
Dickinson, Bevil C. House
Common Name:
Address:
2 Sodom St
City/Town:
Granville
Village/Neighborhood:
Granville
Local No:
48
Year Constructed:
1843
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Greek Revival
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Agriculture; Architecture
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Wall: Brick; Glass; Wood; Wood Clapboard
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Address
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Historic Name
B e v i l C . D i c k i n s o n House
Use:
Present
Residence
Original
Residence
DESCRIPTION
Date
1843
Source
nink-inson Hi s t o r y
Style
Greek R e v i v a l
Architect
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Unknown
Exterior Wall Fabric
Outbuildings
Barn and M i l l
Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Good
Moved
Date
Acreage
Setting
UTM REFERENCE
30.0 a c r e s
Rural/Suburban
Recorded by
USGS QUADRANGLE
Southwick
SCALE
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Organization
Granville Historic
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August 1987
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NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable)
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
T h i s 2 - s t o r y , g a b l e - f r o n t - a n d - w i n g b u i l d i n g f e a t u r e s a pedimented gable ornamented by a
recessed
t r i a n g u l a r m o t i f i n t h e center o f t h e gable.
e m b e l l i s h e d by l a r g e 12/12
The gable end facade i s f u r t h e r
f i r s t s t o r y windows and c o r n e r p i l a s t e r s .
A frieze
continues
from t h e main facade along a l l s i d e s o f t h e b u i l d i n g except t h e wing's gable end.
H S T O R I C A L SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the
tjuilding relates to the development of the community.
B e v i l Consider D i c k i n s o n b u i l t t h i s house i n 1843. He was a wood t u r n e r who
powder kegs a t a saw m i l l on t h e p r o p e r t y .
a l s o made a t t h e m i l l .
The p a r q u e t f l o o r i n g
manufactured
found i n t h e house was
A g r i s t m i l l a l s o e x i s t e d on t h e p r o p e r t y .
L e s t e r B. D i c k i n s o n
i s shown as t h e owner-of t h e house and g r i s t m i l l i n 1894. About 1907, t h e Hampden
County Improvement League t r i e d t o g e t f a r m e r s o f G r a n v i l l e i n t e r e s t e d i n growing
Lester offered
apples.
t h i s l a n d f o r t h e experiment which proved t o be s u c c e s s f u l .
Howard D i c k i n s o n owned t h e p r o p e r t y i n 1912 w i t h t h e g r i s t m i l l s t i l l i n e x i s t e n c e .
The p r o p e r t y i s s t i l l owned by t h e D i c k i n s o n f a m i l y and t h e m i l l a t t h e s i t e i s t h e
oldest i n existence i n G r a n v i l l e .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
R e g i s t r y o f Deeds - 4869/251
Hampden County A t l a s - 1855, 1870, 1894, 1912
W i l s o n - H i s t o r y o f G r a n v i l l e , p . 118-120, 144-145
Notes from P h i l l i p D i c k i n s o n , 1987
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Photos of houses in Granville, including notes on the reverse of the photo where applicable. Information is believed to be accurate but we welcome additional information, pictures, corrections and comments.
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Sodom Street 0002 Bevil C. Dickinson House
Description
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2 Sodom Street, Granville, Massachusetts (corner of Main Road and Sodom St.).
First Photo: About 1921. From the Viola Elizabeth Bettinger (1899-1983) photo album. Viola Bettinger was a teacher at the old Granville Village School during the early 1920's. Her photo album was donated to the Granville Library Historical Room. All photos in the album have been scanned and added to Granville History Digital Collection. The collection can be viewed in its entirety by searching on Viola Bettinger.
Second Photo: Summer 1941, taken by Herbert Hiers. The home of Howard Dickinson at the time.
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Photo #77 in the Herb Hiers 1941 album.
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1921 and 1941 photos posted on FB community page, 2021.
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Built 1843
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Bevil Dickinson
Granville
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Howard Dickinson
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Granby Road 0002, Granville Public Library, Snow and No Snow, 1923
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Granville Public Library, 1923.
No-snow photo from the Viola Elizabeth Bettinger (1899-1983) photo album. Viola Bettinger was a teacher at the old Granville Village School during the early 1920's. Her photo album was donated to the Granville Library Historical Room. All photos in the album have been scanned and added to Granville History Digital Collection. The collection can be viewed in its entirety by searching on Viola Bettinger.
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1923
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Granville Public Library Historical Room
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Granby Road
Granville
Library
Massachusetts
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Introduction
very difficult for people of today, when wages are high and
. money is plentiful, actually to realize the financial situation of
nearly sixty years ago when the Granville Library Club was organized. In those days, for a small group of women to set themselves
to raise enough money to build and equip a library was an .almost
unheard-of undertaking. It was a task far harder than it would now
be to raise five times the same amount.
To commemorate the work of these courageous women, this short
paper, most of which was written in 1906, with a few additions to
include some of the later work of the Club, is now presented as an
Addendum to the History of Granville.
I
T IS
LAVINIA ROSE WILSON
Granville, November 15, 19 53
�The Story of a Village Library
W
E ARE all more or less familiar with present-day workings of
the Granville Library, but not so much so with the struggles
to get it started-and they were indeed very real struggles. It is of
these struggles that this paper tells.
Nowadays we are apt to take the Library for granted, much as
we do our schools; but in my girlhood, it was quite different. Then
the nearest approach to a public library was the very limited collection of books in the Sunday Schools; in fact, one of the attractions
of Sunday School was that you could get a book to take home and
read during the week.
So imagine yourself, if you will, to be looking at the pink and
green map of New England in your old school geography. On the
boundary line between the Nutmeg State and the Old Bay State,
just west of the Connecticut River, you will see the pink of Massachusetts jutting down into the green of Connecticut. The little
Massachusetts town which occupies the section just northwest of
this jog is Granville.
Like a good many New England towns in the hill districts, the
scanty population is scattered over an area of about forty square
miles with three small villages as centers, Granville, Granville Center and West Granville, each one once having its own schoolhouse,
store, post office and church, and a farming population living along
the outlying country roads. The two western villages are distinctly
farming communities, but Granville proper, formerly called the
Corners, with not over 300 souls all told, is a manufacturing community although now nearly twenty miles from the nearest railroad
center.
As one might expect, there are some families who, though perhaps
not rich in the modern sense of the word, are really well-to-do; but
life for the most means daily work. Naturally, too, there are some
who enter deeply into the problems of the day and the intellectual
treasures of past and present; but they, too, belong to the few, and
there is no literary club, even so-called. The boys and girls, as they
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HISTORY
OF
GRANVILLE
grow up, either go away to school and then into business or professional life elsewhere; or, without completing the excellent school
course furnished by the town, enter the factories, work on the farm,
or do odd jobs here and there. And in the latter case, they are very
apt to drift.
Such, then, were conditions in 1896 when the wife of one of our
leading business men, a woman of the noblest ideals, saw primarily
the needs of the boys and girls; and out of her efforts to help them
grew our Library, one of the most beautiful and best equipped in
any town of comparable size. Coming from one of our great
cities where church, Young Men's Christian Association, and other
organizations do so much to provide social life distinctly for young
people and to afford them a common meeting-place which shall be
not only thoroughly desirable, but open to them at any time, Mrs.
Ralph B. Cooley realized the lack of exactly that element and
thought she might help Granville most in that particular way. The
Town, in compliance with the Library Act of 1890, had appropriated a small amount of money and had then received one hundred
dollars' worth of books from the State. All these were placed in
the chapels in Granville and Granville Center, in charge of the
ministers or some interested person and were accessible to the public
one afternoon a week. Accommodations were lamentably insufficient
and neither books nor people could be properly cared for.
So, on February 11, 1896, Mrs. Cooley invited to her home
twelve women and laid before them her hopes. The Granville
Library Club, with Mrs. Cooley as its President, was immediately
organized and its purpose distinctly stated: "To erect a library
building containing a library and reading-room and also a room
provided with suitable attractions and amusements for both young
men and young women." The original members were:
Mrs. Ralph B. Cooley, President
Miss Nellie C. Noble, Vice-President
Miss Cora A. Noble, Secretary
and Treasurer
Mrs. Orville R. Noble
Mrs. Silas B. Root
Mrs. Cittie Huddleston
Mrs. Mary Gill
Mrs. Emma Barlow
Mrs. Milo E. Seymour
Mrs. E. N. Henry
Mrs. Nell Gibbons
Mrs. Alice Carpenter
Miss Clara E. Wilcox
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Of these thirteen charter members, only two are now living, Mrs.
Cittie Huddleston and Miss Clara Wilcox. Some years ago when
Mrs. Huddleston moved away from Granville, ·she resigned from
the Club though still showing her interest in it. So now the only
remaining member of the Club who was one of the original members
is Miss Clara E. Wilcox.
Next came the all-important question of finance, not "How should
it be done?", but "How could it be done?". The personnel of the
Club then came to the front. The members had been chosen not
because of their financial or literary qualifications, though these were
well represented, but for their personal qualities. Some were women
of independent means; some earned their own living by working
in the factory; there were some whose husbands had an average
daily wage, one whose husband received only one dollar a day; and
one who had absolutely no pin-money to call her own. Clearly, then,
it was not a question of writing checks for the desired amount. The
money must be earned, and to this very fact is due in great measure
the wholesome interest which the Club aroused. Each member
pledged ten dollars a year which she should earn, and more if possible. In addition to this individual effort, they were to work as a
Club. Now recall, please, the situation, population and environm~nt
of the town. Consider, too, that with the exception of two generous
gifts, practically all the money was raised in the one small village
of Granville, that the Club was started only in 1896, that in November, 1901, the building was completed at a total cost of more than
$13,000-and you will have some idea of the zeal and self-denial
with which those few women worked.
To get a true picture of conditions then, we should remember
that a pound of cheese cost only 16¢; a quart of the best milk, 5¢;
an excellent and substantial three course dinner in one of Westfield's
best restaurants, only 25¢. This dinner consisted of a large plate of
soup-not a few spoonfuls in a cup-, a very generous serving of
roast beef or pork with potatoes and two other vegetables, plenty
of bread and butter, a large piece of pie, and coffee or tea. Twentyfive cents l Think of it l Then for fifty cents, you could have a really
deluxe dinner in one of Springfield's best hotels. So when these
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women pledged themselves to earn ten dollars a year, apiece, it
really was something.
Immediately after the adjournment of its ·first meeting, the Club
resolved itself into individual committees of ways and means, and
many an hour was spent in careful thought, for one of the first
principles was that for whatever was done, only the current commercial value should be asked; that every article sold should be not
simply attractive, but useful amd fu:lly worth its price. In short, that
buyers were always to receive their money's worth and that no one
should feel that, since it was for a .good cause, one was expected to
pay double price for what was not wanted.
The record of the ,first two or three years shows the common
sense ideas which the members had, as well as the business insight
which saw what could be most advantageously turned into dollars
and cents. One woman who lived upon a farm where arbutus ran
riot gathered and sent to a neighboring city enough to bring her six
of the necessary ten dollars. Later in the year, she herself picked
and sold the fruit from some of their cherry trees; and during
winter evenings she knitted many a pair of mittens. This was Mrs.
Alice Carpenter.
Growing along some of the tiny brooks were quantities of sweet
flag. One member hired a boy to gather the roots for her at intervals
during the summer. After being clea·ned, sliced and sugared, they
were sold in five-cent packets. This proved not only very attractive,
hut very profitable. It was Clara Wilcox who did this. She also
knitted bed socks and mittens.
The Club President, Mrs. Ralph B. Cooley, who had a garden
noted for its delicious strawberries, sold those which were not
wanted for home use and always found an eager market. Then, a
little later, being a shrewd business woman, she exchanged a thor0ughly g.ood but cast-off overcoat of her husband's for the year's
yield of a neighbor's crab-apple tree. These crab apples she had
pickred and sent to a dealer in New York, so commanding the best
.price, and realized a little over thirteen dollars from that venture
alone.
Two other Club members, Mrs. Ann N ohle and Mrs. Nell Gibbons, joined forces and on every Saturday afternoon during the
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summer sold ice-cream. This proved to be especially attractive since
there was at that time no place in town where it could be bought,
and many an order was taken for the Sunday-dinner supply. They
also made lemonade for the Saturday ball games 'and so earned the
gratitude, as well as nickels, of a thirsty public.
Mrs. Cittie Huddleston made pop corn balls for Saturday sale
and so delighted the hearts of the small boys. She also made hulled
corn-an old-time dish which we now seldom see.
Mrs. Silas Root, near whose home was a small unused field, had
this land plowed and sowed to turnips. A good yield resulted and
much more than the required amount was easily earned. Being an
excellent cook, she also made and sold doughnuts.
Miss Nellie Noble, who had a gift for painting, took orders for
calendars and the like at Christmas time, and so solved her problem.
Her sister, Miss Cora Noble, laundered fine lace curtains and sold
specially prepared jellies.
Mrs. Emma Barlow earned her ten dollars by doing housework
for a neighbor.
Mrs. Hattie Oysler, who joined the Club not long after it was
started, made and sold carpenter's aprons, something which at that
time happened to be specially needed. Then on one day each week,
for a certain length of time, she sold clam chowder to the men from
the factory-not an easy way of earning her share, but a very
practical one.
Mrs. Emma Holcomb, another woman not a charter member,
made her money by doing her own washing and ironing and, most
significant of all, by "going without things." In that lies the key to
the whole situation. It meant self-denial in the sense that one gave
up present personal wishes for future general good.
Then, to speak briefly of the work of the Club as a whole : in
November, 1896, a fair was held, the first in twenty-five years, if
you can credit such a seemingly impossible statement. This brought
in nearly $500.00. The chief interest in this fair centered around a
beautifully dressed French doll given by the Club President. A great
many tickets had been sold allowing purchasers to guess its name,
the doll to go, of course, to the one guessing correctly. The name
proved to be Celia; and through a fortunate chain of circumstances,
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the doll was immediately given back to the Club to be sold again
that evening. She was put up at auction, sold and again returned for
selling, and so for the third time brought ?, good price. All told, she
netted the Club just $112.00. The name "Celia" was chosen because
that was the name of Mr. Ralph Cooley's mother.
Following this came a package sale, an auction, a birthday social,
and a strawberry festival; but these were soon discontinued and all
efforts concentrated upon the November fair which came to be an
annual event looked forward to with great interest. Not only do
townspeople go, but there is a good representation from nearby
towns. Westfield merchants, who draw considerable trade from the
Granville people, have remembered us very kindly, some by a barrel
of flour or the like, or a money equivalent. At the fair, there is
always a fancy work booth where one can buy really beautiful embroideries and other hand-work. However, most of the attention is
given to distinctly useful articles and many a thrifty housewife plans
to get there her yearly supply of aprons for they are of various styles,
home-made, of the best materials, and at a price only a little more
than the actual cost of the gingham or lawn. The same thing is done
in the line of handkerchiefs and, while there are some not homemade, most are dainty hem-stitched affairs with a touch of lace or
embroidery at about the cost of bare materials. A candy table and
fish-pond for the children and a flower table for the grown-ups also
help to please, as well as a very generous booth where one can buy
vegetables, fruits, home-made jellies, pickles and relishes, or even
fowls. In connection with the fair, a very unusual chicken-pie supper
is always served at a moderate price and there are few who do not
take advantage of it. Because the fair and supper are distinctly
practical, they are always well attended and ordinarily net about
$500.00.
At the end of their third year, the Club had banked nearly
$3,000.00. Then Mr. Milton B. Whitney of Westfield, a native of
Granville, offered to give $5,000.00 for a Library if the Town
would give a like amount, the entire sum to go only into the building
and its furnishings. After this offer had been made, the Club decided
to raise as much money as possible among the citizens by subscription, and in this way secured $1,800.00 in amounts varying from fifty
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cents to two hundred dollars. Former residents of the town, who still
felt an interest, as well as their descendants, subscribed a like
amount, $1,300.00 of which was given by Mr. Frl\ncis B. Cooley of
Hartford, Connecticut and Mr. Foote of New York City pledged
fifty dollars a year during his lifetime for the reading room. So Mr.
Whitney's offer of $5,000.00 was more than paired by the Club
and what had been a remote possibility was now nearing reality.
Next came the question of location, and in order to secure the
most desirable spot, it became necessary to move two houses and
take down several buildings. This meant an unexpected expense of
more than $1,500.00. But the amount was raised, in 1900 the building was started, completed the following year and opened for use
on February 22, 1902.
It would be interesting to know how many now remember the
Library corner as it was before that building was started. There
was the house on the corner, facing west, where the George Gaines
family lived and a huge butternut tree just north of the house. In
the rear, and a little to one side, was a large two-story building in
the northwest corner of which was the well which now supplies the
Library. Farther toward the east were the barns and a large earlyapple tree, the delight of all the children. Between the Gaines' house
and what is now the Grange Hall stood another house, occupied by
the Bruch family and later on by the Charles Thompson family.
This was back in 1900 when the automobile was still a curiosity.
In their plans, the architects had to provide for the two-fold use
of the building, that of the library proper and the rooms for social
purposes. It was desired to have the two features closely connected
and, at the same time, arranged so that they could be used independently. This was most happily accomplished and, in addition, provision was made in the basement for a commodious kitchen, pantry
and supper room. The building itself, on a foundation of native
field stone, is of buff brick with brown stone trimmings, is heated
by steam and was originally lighted by a separate acetylene gas
plant. This lighting system was changed to electricity when that
became available.
Upon its completion, the Library was presented by the Club to
the Town which, in return, gave the Club certain privileges. The
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Library is open for the taking of books two days each week in the
afternoon and every evening except Sunday, as is the reading room.
The amusement room at first was open f9ur evenings a week but,
with changed conditions, it is now used for other things. Branch
libraries were established in the schoolhouses of the outlying districts with the teachers as custodians, hut school consolidation has
brought changes. For a· time, there were also branch libraries in the
village stores in the western part of the town. The annual expense
was met about equally by Town and Club until World War II made
it impossible to hold the annual fair and supper.
From its beginning, the Club has worked as a unit and although
there have been strong individual preferences, they have been subordinated to bring about the greatest final good. There is one regret
-that the tirst Vice-President, Miss Nellie C. Noble, a woman who
was untiring in her efforts at a most critical time, one whom all
loved for her enthusiastic support, did not live to see the building
completed. The work was long and at times disheartening; yet
throughout, there was never for an instant the thought of giving up.
It was a labor of love which roused interest among young and old
alike and is, we hope, hut the start of a continuing work of village
improvement.
As to the later work of the Club, these are only a few of its more
important activities: Since the death of Mr. Foote, the Club has
bought and placed in the Library for public use the leading magazines and one daily paper. It has also bought various encyclopedias
and books of reference especially useful to children in the Grades
and in the High School, as well as hundreds of hooks of general
interest.
In 1923, when the lighting was changed from acetylene gas to
electricity, more than half the bill was paid by the Club. In 1927,
the original roof of wooden shingles leaked so badly that it was
replaced by one of slate at a cost of more than $1,300.00, entirely
paid for by the Club. From time to time, other repairs have been
needed and for these the Club has paid its full share. Also, the Club
gave and placed on the Library lawn a steel flag-pole and a large
United States flag to fly therefrom.
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In 1945, Mr. William B. Bailey of West Hartford, Connecticut,
established a fund of $1,000.00 in memory of his mother, Ellen
Bacon Bailey, a Granville woman, the income to be,used to purchase
hooks of historical and genealogical interest. This gave the Club
the idea of using the former amusement room, which had ceased to
be used as such, for an historical exhibit. Granville residents were
enthusiastic and either gave or loaned many valuable and interesting
articles, which are now on view. The special attendant is paid by
the Club.
In June, 1950, the Club celebrated the start of the actual building
of the Library by an "open house" for the Town, held at the
Library. Refreshments were served and in the evening there was
dancing on the lawn, which was made gay with Japanese lanterns.
Members of the Club, dressed in costumes of fifty years before,
acted as hostesses.
Two years later, in 19 52, the Club and the Town joined in a
celebration at the Library, honoring Mrs. Mable Root Henry for
fifty years of devoted and efficient service as Librarian. The Club
presented to her a· gold wrist watch and the Town, by individual
subscriptions, a substantial cash gift. Also in 1952, the Club placed
and lighted a Community Christmas Tree upon the Library lawnsomething which it hopes to continue as an annual event.
With the rationing of both food and gasoline in World War II,
the Club was forced to discontinue the annual chicken pie supper and
fair by which it raised the largest part of its expense money. In
consequence, since then the Town has had to pay most of the bills.
However, two suppers and fairs have been held, one in 1950 and
one in 1952, the money raised being used strictly for Library
purposes.
In the days to come, as in the past, the Club hopes to continue its
work for the Community, which was the reason for its coming into
being and has been its one aim throughout the years.
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Houses and Other Structures
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Photos of houses in Granville, including notes on the reverse of the photo where applicable. Information is believed to be accurate but we welcome additional information, pictures, corrections and comments.
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Granville Public Library, completed 1901. The library was officially opened on February 22, 1902.
Construction photo shows Ria Brower Cooley holding a brick and trowel, laying the first bricks for the library construction. The mason looks a bit impatient.
2 Granby Rd., MACRIS Inv. #GRN 75
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1901
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School Class Photos
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Granville Village School Students on Granville Library Steps, c. 1933
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Circa 1933
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Children on the steps of the Granville Public Library. Believed to be 1933. This would be the last class to attend the old Village School on Granby Road, before the new Village School on Main Road was completed in December 1933 and occupied in January 1934.
Students identified in this photo (also see "Comments" below):
Duane Banks
Bud Beckwith
Marjorie Williams Webb Bloomberg
Marylin Wealthy Johnson
This photo was posted on the community FB page 20 May 2021 for crowd comments regarding date and identities. Comments as follows:
BW: "I think the fourth girl from the right in the second row is my Aunt Marilyn Wealthy Johnson in West Granville. She was one of four children of Henry and Bessie Johnson. My grandfather Henry was a long time road worker of the town until in his early 60's fell of the back of a truck shoveling sand onto the slippery road breaking his hip. I believe after that both he and my grandma Bessie worked for the Noble and Cooley Drum Factory."
DB: "BW, I remember your Grandfather, thought you were so lucky to have him living in his own cottage at your house. â¤ï¸"
DJC: "I remember him well. I also dreamt of having a playhouse like his home! Thanks for sharing."
RCE: "Some of the facial expressions are amusing! The boys to the far right appear to be up to some mischief. 😂 thanks for sharing these wonderful pieces of Granville history."
BW: "RCE, Both sides of my family as well as my two sisters grew up in West Granville and I have much to share with you. My aunt Marilyn was on my mother's side and my father Robert Barnes was born and raised in the farm on Borderbrook Rd on the old farm next to the road going around the reservoir and he was born in 1930. He worked for the town until he retired in 1985 and left many close friends like the Sandman's, Paul Jensen, Melvin Jensen and Butch Schultz."
MPR: "Marie Holcomb said she recognized Bud Beckwith and Duane Banks and maybe Marjorie Webb. She didn’t tell me which ones they were but maybe someone else will recognize them if they see the names."
JWA: " I thought Marjorie Webb Bloomberg was the one with the dark hat and coat in the second row up. And Bud Beckwith is the one in the second row up on the left end possibly, blonde hair, white shirt. That face seemed familiar to me and Bud was one of our neighbors. Marjorie's daughter has confirmed that the one in the dark hat and coat is indeed Marjorie."
MPR: " It might be their graduation picture. Class of 1933, according to Linda Bloomberg DeMars."
JWA: "So 8th graders then?"
MPR: " That looks about right. The school was built in 1933 but Linda said her mother never went to the school we knew."
LDM: "My Mother Marjorie Williams Webb Bloomberg in the second row with a hat on. She graduated from high school 1937 and 8Th grade 1933."
JWA: "That's what I was wondering. Maybe the school opened in the fall of 1933. Big class! Some look so old, some so young!"
JWA: "Is Phyllis Pratt Woodger the tall girl with the white shirt and the two dark bows?"
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children
Granby Road
Granville
Library
Massachusetts
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Houses and Other Structures
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Photos of houses in Granville, including notes on the reverse of the photo where applicable. Information is believed to be accurate but we welcome additional information, pictures, corrections and comments.
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Granby Road 0002, Granville Library Recent Photos
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The Granville Public Library, 2 Granby Road, Granville, MA. 01034<br /><br />1. Front View: Danny Dason photo (see "Rights").<br /><br />2. Aerial Photo: 27 Dec 2020 (see "Rights").<br /><br />3. The library fireplace and portrait of Milton B. Whitney, 2019 or 2020. Granville Library Historical Room photo.<br /><br />GPS Coordinates: <br />Lat. 42.066966699472786 <br />Long. -72.86082370630237<br /><br /><a href="https://www.granvillepubliclibrary.org/">LINK TO LIBRARY WEB SITE</a>
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1. Front View: Copyright Danny Nason <a href="https://dannynason.com/">https://dannynason.com/</a> May not be downloaded or used further without the consent of the photographer. <br /><br />2. Aerial Photo: Copyright <a href="https://gigueresphotography.com/">Giguere's Photography</a>, 2020. May not be downloaded or used further without the consent of the photographer. <br /><br />3. Granville Public Library Historical Room
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Aerial Photo: 27 Dec 2020
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Danny Nason
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Granby Road
Granville
Library
Massachusetts