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The Last Days: Stripped of its modern siding.
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The Bell Tolls No More: Harvey School District 5
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Top level
Lost Landmarks
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Cleaning only the girls' boots....
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......was this bootscraper I noticed still affixed to the granite step. For those who may not be aware, the scraper served a very useful purpose: unlike the way we travel today on paved roads, horses pulled carriages all those years ago. While they did not pollute the environment to the extent that the traffic does here now, horses did leave a mess behind them. Such dainty boots did scrape here, and assisted in keeping floors clean. Photo May 5, 1994.
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As noticed by Bernie
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Bernie Cowette noticed too, this scraper, but he beat me to the shutter. While I thought I was the only one who noticed these things, I was to find out a decade later, he too had the same vision, in black and white, before me.
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The boys had their own door
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This, the north door, is that which was used in the early days exclusively by the boys. I had wondered if "Commodore" Nutt once passed through this door, though it seems unlikely. Undoubtedly, he had seen it, though given his age of 17 at the time of this building's construction, he was well beyond school-age. He must have attended the first structure on this site. Commodore died in 1881 at the age of 43, and was buried in the Merril Cemetery which sits adjacent to this school's location. Bernie Cowette photo, 1993.
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The Girls had their own.....
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And so the door swung here for so long, as the pretty girls in ornate dresses passed beyond it, it the warmth of the southern winter sun. This was their own door. The door was well remembered by Ruth (Boone) Johnson in 1994. She was then 96 years old.
Our beloved John Clayton featured a heart-warming article in the Union Leader on May 16, 1994. In all likelihood, Ruth is gone now too, as ten years have passed. But she did tell Mr. Clayton "how the teacher would ring her little bell at 7:30, and the boys went in the north door, the girls in the door on the south.. Then we'd hang up our coats and wind up in the same room."
She remembered the teacher too, 91 years later. It was 1903 when an elderly spinster, Emma J. Ela, was thought to be too old to teach "in the city". She was sent to Harvey School, to "get the country children started". Ruth Boone was then, only five years old. Photo courtesy of Bernie Cowette.
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Alison Poetker
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09.23.2004 10:30
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Jonas Harvey Jr built this school. In 1860 his nephew , Jonas H. Harvey b Canada was living with him Jonas H. Harvey married Mary Nutt,, sister of the dwarf Commodore Nutt. In 1880 they were in Sullivan County.NH.
Jonas H. Harvey was a 1st cousin of my gg grandmother, Experience Harvey.
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Cathy Becker
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07.31.2005 21:47
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> Jonas Harvey Jr built this school. In 1860 his nephew ,
> Jonas H. Harvey b Canada was living with him Jonas H.
> Harvey married Mary Nutt,, sister of the dwarf Commodore
> Nutt. In 1880 they were in Sullivan County.NH.
> Jonas H. Harvey was a 1st cousin of my gg grandmother,
> Experience Harvey.
Alison,
Please contact me at cdbeckerco@yahoo. I have info about Annie Sherk Piper (my g-grandmother).
Cathy
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