Here's two schools from the past to celebrate the opening of the new school year...Forest Park School in Springfield, Massachusetts, in a postcard image from 1909. The school was built in the 1890s, with the original third floor removed in the 1930s. It is now Forest Park Middle School.
The Highland Grammar School in Holyoke was built in 1900, closed in the 1980s, and the location is now a public park. This postcard image also dates from around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War;
Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts;
A Tragic Toast to Christmas -- The Infamous Wood Alcohol Deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass.; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her Double V Mysteries series is set in New England in the early 1950s.
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