Bell Hill, where the town's first meetinghouse was erected in 1798, was then the population center of town. The brick schoolhouse and a new meetinghouse, also constructed in 1839, still stand side by side, both now owned and maintained by the Bell Hill Meeting House Association.
Students are, back row, left to right: Victoria Hoglund, Doris Hamlin (later Culbert), Lydia Heikkinen. 2nd row, Orin Lord, Effie Stone, Doris Ridlon, Marion Stone. 3rd row, Matti Heikkinen, Amo Kalweit, Ralph Dyer. Front row: G. Howard Dyer, Willard Stone.
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