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<strong>Salisbury</strong> Schools1892 - Aggie Dempsey1895, 1896 - Miriam C. Smith1898 - Mary A. Lordin1900 - Mary E. Emery1900 - Margaret Allen1900 - Alice Walton Adams1901 - Nellie Brown1901 - Edna Thurlow1904 - Elizabeth Sawyer1905 - Madeline S. Rowe1905 - Charlott M. Hoyte1908 - Mable Smith1911 - Miss Lena Neal & Pauline Moody1913 - Charlotte B. Knowles1913 - Mable Odella Swanson1914 - R.P. Muffin1917 - Miss Zelda Haynes1918 - Dorothy Packer1925 - Blanch Knowles Brown1925 - Mrs. Belva Chase1929 - Grace Chase1933-1940 - Annie Dawson1940 - Mrs. Charlotte BrownBy <strong>the</strong> year 1871 <strong>Salisbury</strong> had a high school for whichtuition was charged. The large victorian building on HighStreet, in what is now Amesbury, originally housed onlytwenty-five students. The first class to graduate in 1875 consisted<strong>of</strong> only two girls, Marion Clark and Mary PrescottBatchelder. At <strong>the</strong> graduation ceremonies <strong>the</strong> speaker wasReverend S. J. Spaulding. The building served as <strong>Salisbury</strong>’sHigh School until 1886 when <strong>the</strong> <strong>Salisbury</strong> West Parish wasannexed to <strong>the</strong> town <strong>of</strong> Amesbury. It continued as a grammarschool for many years.35

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