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School Bus  Dec 1930 a-7510.jpg
George Aldrich's "winter school bus" pulled by his horse Daisy, December 1930.

Photo 1: Daisy (horse), George Aldrich sitting in the back Children: Mildred, Milly, Dorothy.

Photo 2: The bus waiting to be hitched up. In the bus: Lee, Phil…

Winter 2019 12 30 Chase Photo.jpg
Winter in Granville, beginning December 2019. Photos in order as displayed:

1. Main Road, 30 Dec 2019 ice storm.
2. Main Road, 30 Dec 2019, ice storm.
3. Main Road, 01 Jan 2020
4 & 5: Blandford Road, 01 Jan 2020

Winchell Henry Portrait Photo.jpg
Buried in Northeast Cemetery, Granville, Massachusetts.Winchell land was the first to be taken by eminent domain on April 1, 1898 when the construction of the original reservoirs began in Northeast Granville. The Winchell Reservoir was named for the…

HRI Granville Reservoir 1937 front.jpg
Aerial view of the Granville Reservoir taken in 1937.

Bettinger Album 020 W H Sanderson superintendent 1922-5352.jpg
William Henry Sanderson (1854-1940) was Granville's Superintendent of Schools (not to be confused with Henry W. Sanderson who was Superintendent of the Westfield Water Works and oversaw the taking of farmland in Granville for the Granville…

Pomeroy William S Letter to R B Cooley 1902 002.jpg
A "sort of genteel begging letter" from Wm. S. Pomeroy, owner of the store in Granville Center, to R.B. Cooley in 1902 seeking a contribution to the centennial celebration of the construction of the First Congregational Church, typically referred to…

Bettinger Album 116 Wilhelmina Hansen June1923-5453.jpg
Wilhelmina Hansen Tryon donated many of the photos now on this site to the Granville Library Historical Room over many years, and was an active volunteer who helped to make Granville's one of the finer small town photo collections in…

1942 12 29 storm Wilcox hotel.jpg
Snowstorm of 29 Dec 1942, Hiers photo. Wilcox Hotel is on the right. Old Universalist Church (gone) steeple in the background. Granville Country Store is just out of sight on the left. Gas sign is visible. View is looking northwest toward Main Road.

Aldrich George ash tree-7506.jpg
George Aldrich photos of trees near the Nelson farm on West Hartland Road, West Granville.
Photo 1: George Aldrich standing next to fallen ash tree.
Photo 2: Ice storm.
Photo 3: Elm tree

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This house was on the left (west) side of West Hartland Road. It was the next house after the Nelson/Aldrich farm heading south. Both houses are now gone and the land is now State Forest.
Former owners include George Atkins and Lester Sattler.…

Coe Ransom Krasnoff House.jpg
House associated with Harlow Coe, Milo B. Coe, Ed and Sarah Ransom, and Krasnoff families. Built 1799. See photo notes.
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