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District # 14 - Whittier Hill School

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District #14. From Fanny SMITH's school record book: "The eight week summer term of 1895 had nine students at Whittier Hill School: Bernice BARRETT, age 5; Neal BARRETT, age 9; Herman FULSOM, age 11; Annie HOPKINS, age 12; Bertha HOPKINS, age 12; Annis WALKER, age 5; Hattie WALKER, age 11, Willie WALKER, age 8; and Grace WHITTIER, age 11. Miss SMITH received $5.00 per week for teaching, and from this paid $1.25 per week to board with Mrs. HOPKINS, "a good boarding place." She commented in her record book: "This was a successful school . . . This will long be remembered as the 'wicked downfall of wages' of this town."

"Howard CARPENTER taught (at Whittier Hill), and Joe JOYAL's wife (Eva Clough JOYAL) I think was the last. It closed about 1907 or 8. My grandmother went there, Ed GOULD, Will WALKER. Then after they closed it, the town stored snow fence in it." -- David SMITH

The school was still being kept up in 1930. The town spent $67.43 for roofing. It was listed in the 1948 town report inventory at $50. There seems to be no record of what actually became of it, but it was probably taken down. The foundation is now barely discernable.

Quotes - Source "Cabot, Vermont A Collection of Memories From The Century Past" A Publication of the Cabot Oral History Committee - 1999 Excerpts from pp - 149.

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