Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 x State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National x Local government Register - University _ designated a National Historic Landmark Other _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # _ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record #. (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 1 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Summary The 1833 Chicopee School (formerly called the District 7 School) was one of 14 district schools 1 Groton at the time of its construction. It is one of four surviving former district schools, ar le only one retaining its historic school-related design and interior features. It is the only one n adapted for residential use. he building's longstanding civic use establishes its significanc nder Criterion A. The building was occupied by students of District 7 from the time c design influences; the wood-frame vestibule at the front and detached outhouse at the rear also contribute to the design, and support the property's eligibility under Criterion C.
The name of Chicopee Row, while frequently associated with the region of Western Massachusetts, appears to be an alternate spelling of "Chicabee Row" that appears on the 1828-1829 field notes for the map of the town created by Caleb Butler. Its derivation is unknown although there is also Farmers Row in Groton, a street name that was also in use by 1828. Historical themes to which the property relates include Architecture, Education, and Community Planning and Development. The period of significance is 1833-1957 with the significant dates of 1893 relating to the remodeling of the interior and 1916, the termination of its function as a schoolhouse. The school retains integrity of location, design, feeling, materials, setting, association, and workmanship. 1655-1833 Efforts toward public education in Groton began in 1681, 26 years after incorporation in 1655.
At that time, according to town historian Caleb Butler writing in 1848, selectmen received instruction from the residents to "...take care that there be a school, or college, of learning of children the English tongue to read." This was followed in 1703 by efforts of indeterminate result to retain John Applin of Watertown to "teach children and youth to read and write." By 1716, school was being kept in a former meetinghouse northwest of the current town center (at Hollis and School Streets, no longer extant), although court records from 1717, 1748, and 1779 contain accusations that the town did not keep a school according to the law.
Despite sporadic failures to hold classes, the town voted in 1741 to have school taught by one teacher in five separate locations on a serial basis (called a "moving school"), thus beginning the process of determining what would become, in 1785, 12 of the 14 local school districts. Twenty-eight children (males under 21 years of age and females under 18) lived in District 7 at the time and were taught at the house of John Sheple, according to Butler. This number is below the average of 53 students per district, a situation that would persist until the early 20# century, and contribute to the closure of the District 7 School (renamed the Chicopee School in 1874) in 1916. District 7 encompassed the land on both sides of Chicopee Row from Hollis Street to the Dunstable town line and includes land along Raddin and Reedy Meadow Roads. The most distant students (contined) (Rev.
10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA typically walked to school from 1½ -2 miles each way. The nature of the town's settlement by Dhestice 1c hool easalhe sitof fariosaineil aparsor lnered racaened n cr odnd scattered along adjacent side roads. A committee of Groton townspeople was appointed in 1792, probably in response to the passing of a 1789 state law requiring the division of towns into school districts, to determine district boundaries and locations of the schoolhouses within the districts. The committee included in its report direction to the residents of the districts to construct school houses at their own expense and effort.
It appears this was done in District 7, resulting in a wood-frame building on or near the current site of the brick Chicopee School. By 1800, according to George H. Martin, former Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and author of "The District School And The Academy In Massachusetts," published in December 1893 in The New England Magazine, the power of taxation was granted by the state to school districts in Massachusetts, thereby institutionalizing the district and allowing the residents to legally require from residents the raising of funds for construction and maintenance of schools. It is worth noting that in 1793, the Groton Academy, later the Lawrence Academy, was founded in Groton Center. This was one of several private high schools founded at the time in the region that provided an avenue for students to continue their studies.
Districts at this time had the autonomous power to raise funds, hire teachers, build and locate schools, and determine curricula and the timing of school terms. Evidence that residents were deeply interested in the education of local children exists in the establishment of the Sawtell School Fund in Groton in 1785. Josiah Sawtell (also Sartell, whose will is partly reprinted by Butler) bequeathed his property called the "Hobart Place" to the town with the stipulation that proceeds from the farm be used to pay for a "good woman's school" to be held in the farmhouse. It is unclear whether the term "woman's school' is intended to mean a school for female students or a school taught by a female.
The minutes mention in 1842 a "man's school or (winter) school," indicating the season of the year was related to the gender of the schoolteacher With the decrease in profitability of the Hobart Farm, the town sold the farm buildings with the majority of the land, and the proceeds were deposited in the Sawtell School Fund which continues to operate and maintain the Chicopee School today. The Sawtell School Fund was originally under the supervision of the trustees of the Groton Ministerial Fund, another of Josiah Sawtell's bequests to the town. Its first members were James Lewis, Calvin Boynton, Jonathan Loring, Joseph Sawtell, Jr. and Caleb Butler, a lawyer, surveyor and author of the town's history in 1848.
An 1814 act of the Massachusetts legislature consolidated the Ministerial Fund with the Sawtell School Fund and empowered a committee of townspeople to "sell and execute a deed or deeds by Luther Lawrence, Joseph Moors, and James Lewis...to convey...real estate devised to said town in and by the last will and testament of Josiah Sawtell, Esq....for the support of a woman's school..and the proceeds of such sale...shall be paid by said committee to the Trustees of the Groton Ministerial Fund, and the same shall be denominated the Sawtell School Fund." (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 3 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA According to the minutes of the April 1, 1816, meeting of the trustees of the Sawtell School Fund (whose first meeting took place on the first Tuesday of March 1816), they voted to pay the mistress, Miss Margaret Shattuck, a dollar per week for teaching and a dollar per week for board in return for teaching school the ensuing summer. It was noted that she would be allowed to choose her own boarding place. that would continue at the District 7 School into the late 19* century according to town reports. During the Colonial period, the Bible and related sources were frequently used for instruction, as is stated by George A. Martin in his article. This changed, however, during the Federal period when religious texts were replaced with secular works on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Geography and moral behavior were added to the curriculum later. Spelling was largely ignored during the 18" century but became a focal point with the publication in 1783 of Noah Webster's dictionary and A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, the so-called "Blue Backed Speller" for the color of its cover. Other texts and teaching materials from the period included The American Preceptor and The Columbian Orator. Speeches and writings of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and William Pitt among others, were also popular according to Martin. By the 1820s, penmanship was an important part of schoolwork. Recess also existed by that time but not homework, according to Reuben A.
Guild in his 1898 recollections in The New England Magazine entitled "A District School Seventy Years Ago." Teachers during the pre- industrial period were largely male, although women were hired to teach the shorter summer terms and the younger students. The men were frequently itinerant semi-professionals who taught school in order to pay for their own academy, medical, religious, or legal educations. Part- time farmers and mechanics also taught. Female teachers were likely to be residents of the district. It was common for teachers to board with the families of their students. 1833-1916 Butler mentions that the late 1820s brought increased concern about the condition of Groton's district schoolhouses. Deterioration had set in among the wooden buildings, most of which, including the District 7 School, dated to the late 18t* century.
Captain Peter Nutting was the successful low bidder to build a new District 7 school in 1833, for which he was paid $329.50 according to previous research by former town historian Isabel Beal. The quality of the building was to be equal to that of the unnamed District 5 school, formerly located on Common Street but no longer extant. A receptory, perhaps indicating an outhouse, was built by Charles Blood for $8 on the southeast corner of the lot in 1846. It was five feet on a side with six and one half foot tall posts and a single glass window. This is smaller than the current outhouse. A diary entry by neighborhood resident Nelson Torrey mentions cleaning the privy in 1889 which may refer to the existing building.
Additional changes described in the Sawtell School Fund Association (SSFA) minutes include the installation of granite hitching posts in 1886, an organ for musical instruction (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page4 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA in 1893, new desks in 1893, exterior white paint in 1901 applied to wood trim on the building, fence, and woodshed, roof shingles in 1881 and 1903, and a new fence (no longer extant) in 1909. The SSFA minutes do not describe the construction of the porch, leaving open the question of Whether or not it was original or added ca. 1893. The design and historic appearance of the fabric of the porch allows for the possibility of either date of construction.
At the time of construction, the interior of the schoolhouse probably had crude slab or bench seats with angled shelves along the walls for desks. This arrangement is described by E. P. Powell in his article "The Romance of Pioneering," published in The New England Magazine in 1899. An alternative floor plan, described in "The District School and The Academy In Massachusetts," consisted of seats arranged in rows across the room with the rear seats higher than those in the front. Older students would overlook the younger learners in this arrangement. The author of the article also notes that he knew of no use of blackboards before 1820. The presence of crude bench seats in the District 7 School, by now called the Chicopee School, is indicated in the town report of 1894, which mentions the removal of benches to be replaced by individual desks.
The town report does not comment on the arrangement of the "original and ancient desks and seats" but does describe the furniture as "heavy plank seats and...coarsely made and much disfigured desks". The diary of Chicopee School student Eva Belle Torrey notes the desks were replaced on August 11, two weeks before the fall term began. Teachers during the mid 19" century at the school included both men and women. The tendency was for men to teach winter terms and women the summers until the late 1860s with only three or four men teaching at the District 7 School after that time (the use of teachers' initials rather than full names prevents an accurate tally). Residents of the district had a strong interest in the proper function of the school which they expressed by making visits during classes and attending examinations on a regular basis.
Visits to the school by adults, including one gathering in June 1894 of 122 people, are recorded in the diaries of student Eva Belle Torrey. Additional names of teachers at the school include William P. Bennett and Lizzie Fosdick in 1860; A. E. Wilder in 1861; Adams Emerson and Ellen Williams in 1862; Mary E. Kemp and William R. Haven in 1863; Augustus J. Moulton and Burton W. Potter in 1865; Asa Williams and Marcie W. Parkhurst in 1867; Augusta M. Torrey and M. W. Parkhurst in 1868; M. W. Parkhurst in 1869; M. W. Parkhurst in 1870; M. W. Parkhurst in 1871; M. W. Parkhurst in 1872; Anna Shattuck and S. F. Longley in1873; Herbert R. Titus and Eveline Davis in 1874; Evelina Davis and Ada C. Davis in 1875; M. M. Richardson in 1876; M. M. Richardson and Clara N. Porter in 1877; Clara Porter and Ellen Brigham in 1878; E. M. Brigham, Clara N. Porter, N. G. King and C. L.
Hutchins in 1879; Clara Hutchins and F. C. Burdett in 1880; Edith F. Walker, Anna Shattuck and William H. Souther in 1881; William H. Souther and Miss Alice M. Farwell in 1882, 1883, 1884; Ida Palmer of Lime, N. H. in 1884; E. S. Bancroft of Pepperell in 1885; Lena Tuttle in 1886; Lena L. Tuttle in 1887 and 1888; Alice E. Chapman of Groton (summer and Fall) and Ida Farwell (winter term) of Greenville, N. H. in 1889; Wilhelmina Harris of Groton and Alice E. Chapman of Groton in 1890; Grace E. Trumbull of Groton in 1891; Grace E. Trumbull (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 5 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA of Groton (summer term) and Cora Chapman of Groton (fall and winter) in 1892,1893, 1894 and spring of 1895; Flora B. Blood, also spelled Flood (fall and winter) in 1895 and all of 1896 and 1897; Grace Titus of Townsend (spring) and Flora B. Flood of Groton (fall and winter) in 1898; Flora Flood in 1899; Flora B. Blood and Fanny Sampson in 1900; Fanny Sampson in 1901; Alice G. Barker in 1906, 1907, 1908 and part of 1909; Elsie Shattuck in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912; Edith Stone, Christine Pease and Hazel Gibson in 1912; Hazel Gibson in 1913, 1914 and 1915. The trend toward hiring female teachers that began in Groton in the 1860s was a thoroughgoing local pattern by 1881, the last year a male teacher worked at the Chicopee School. This is merely a reflection of the statewide trend toward hiring female teachers which, according to Mary P.
Thacher's 1878 Harper's Monthly article entitled "The School Mistress," amounted to an increase of 1,919 female teachers in Massachusetts between 1837 and 1848. Thacher refers to census information when stating that 74% of all teachers in the country in 1870, and 7/8 of all teachers in Massachusetts in 1878, were women. Indeed, in Groton in 1900, all teachers outside the high school were women. The theory of Frederic Burk, author of "Normal Schools and the Training of Teachers" in 1898, suggests the reason for the trend is that nearly all avenues of higher education for women, including normal schools and private four year colleges, led to the teaching profession. In order to prepare boys and girls for college, a public high school was opened in Groton's new town hall in 1860. A purpose-built high school building was constructed near the town hall in 1870.
Also, the Groton School was founded as a college preparatory school on Farmers Row in 1884. Evidence that the public school system functioned well exists in Isabel Beal's 1976 manuscript, where she quotes Chicopee school neighbor and alumnus Willard Torrey's 1891 Arbor Day address at the Chicopee School thus: "I find five lawyers, four physicians, one minister, and quite a number of others who became influential members of society, and filled various offices of trust and responsibility in church and town affairs." This was one of numerous Arbor Day celebrations that occurred during the period, including the 1892 event that attracted 38 people. Chicopee student Eva Belle Torrey records in her diary that the celebrations consisted of recitations, dialogues, dinner, croquet, and singing. She frequently trimmed the school in evergreen gathered from local pastures.
Information on salaries of teachers is available in town reports and indicates that E. P. Jackson, the teacher in 1858, received $120.25 for teaching the fall and winter terms. In 1899, Grace Titus and Flora Flood (also Blood) were earning $36 per month at the school which represents a slight pay increase. The pay increase came in spite of a decrease in the number of students at Chicopee. Hazel Gibson, the last teacher to work in the Chicopee School, earned $320 in 1915. In 1883, there were eight spring term students, 12 in fall, and 13 in winter, while in 1907 there were seven each term.The small number of students is matched bytherelatively small appropriation for operating the classroom.
Chicopee ranked among the lowest in terms of its school budget throughout much of the time such records appear in town reports, and was in fact the lowest in at least three years in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Around this time, town reports show that the (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page 6 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA school was divided into eight grades. Diarist Eva Belle Torrey notes that between 1891 and 1894, the numbers of students ranged from 2 during flu season to as many as 17. According to town reports, curricula during the period consisted of reading, writing and arithmetic as well as drawing by 1882 and music by 1898.
Unlike general subject teachers, those who taught music and drawing traveled from one school to the next. Subjects of one student's drawings included the crocus, forget me nots, shells, cat-tails, and morning glories. Textbooks listed in the 1885 town report included Appleton's Reader, Webster's Dictionary, Harvey's English Grammar, Harper's Geography, Walter Smith's System of Drawing, Duntonian System of Penmanship and Higginson's U. S. History, among others. Metcalf's Grammar and Language Lessons, Vertical Writing, Old Greek Stories, and Stories of Great Americans For Little Americans_were added in 1898. Student and diarist Eva Belle Torrey notes in 1893 that she studied " Physiology, Physical Geography and Botany this term in the place of History, Common Geog.
and Language." While it appears to be a rare exception to her daily schoolwork routine, she notes in 1892 that she wrote a composition on George Washington at night. She also notes that recess (which may have referred to the lunch period) was a part of her class schedule at this time, and that she carried her lunch to school nearly every day. Physical education classes were considered by the school committee in 1909 with vocational training and home economics under discussion shortly afterward. The school calendar during the period called for two months and ten days of class for summer terms and three months and five days for winter. This varied slightly from year to year but progressed toward a more rigid schedule with the creation of a more active school committee and hiring of a school superintendent.
The school committee was empowered by the state court in 1882 to determine the number of schools kept and distribution of students, decisions that were formerly made by residents of autonomous districts. By 1895, the school committee was expressing a preference to centralize the schools and close some district schools for the benefit of the scholars' education and for financial reasons. While centralization did not occur immediately, it was a discussion that would continue for years and would frequently focus on the Chicopee School as underattended (thought to be a detriment to socialization and learning), an unnecessary expense, and a candidate for having its students transported to one of the central village schools. The first superintendent was George R. Dwelly in 1897, who worked two days a week on a job-share basis with another town.
He called for school consolidation, and for the immediate closure of the Chicopee School and three others. The schools were not closed and Mr. Dwelly lasted in his job only one year, suggesting the difficulty the town had in accepting the concept of consolidation. Groton's second part-time school superintendent, David Gibbs, was hired in 1900 and succeeded in gradually closing three schools and having the students transported to the village schools. He recommended that Chicopee be closed but the suggestion was not taken up. Mr. Gibbs also left the superintendent position after a short time. The third superintendent was forced in 1907 to leave open the Chicopee School due to "....the state of affairs in the Chicopee District.... [S]chool was re-opened at the beginning of last spring term, and the school is still maintained.
Local conditions alone were responsible for this re-opening." The above comment appearing in the (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA 907 town report suggests there was disagreement between residents of the Chicopee District anc ither the committee or the superintendent about closure and consolidation. Periodic closure o the school due to low attendance, an issue in the district since 1864, would affect the Chicopee School again in 1866, 1870, 1902, and 1904-1905.
The Chicopee School remained open without interruption from 1905 until its final closure in the fall of 1916, which occurred due to the resignation of the teacher, Hazel Gibson, and to the small size of the student body, then only four children. These students were transported by automobile approximately a mile and a half southwest to the new Boutwell School on Hollis Street. The Moors and Trowbridge Schools in the south and east parts of town were the remaining district schools operating in Groton at that time. 1916-2007 The Chicopee School did not fall into disuse after the students and teachers left. The building remained a focal point for the neighborhood through the activities held there under supervision of the Sawtell School Fund Association, which continues to operate and maintain the building.
According to the minutes of the association meetings, there was a Camp Fire Girls' meeting held at the school in 1923, and electric lights were installed in 1928. According to the recollections of Isabel Beal, SSFA board member, lifetime Groton resident, town historian and town diarist, the school was, in the mid 1900s, the site of Christmas parties, square dances, suppers, picnics, reunions, workshops, and meetings of the neighborhood knitting club. During the Great Depression, classes in nature and astronomy were taught by Elizabeth Hill, and Latin and French were taught by Mrs. Lewis under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Chicopee Row resident and SSFA board member Mary Gallipeau recalls, picnics were combined with yard clean-up projects at the school during which board members David Moen and Arthur Watson performed labor such as mowing grass and removing brush. By this time, the Arbor Day date for the event had been switched to Memorial Day. During the American Bicentennial, local history classes were taught at the school. Vandals broke windows and stole furniture from the school in 1995, necessitating the replacement of the original sash. Prior to this event, meetings of the SSFA were held at the school except in 1943, when the meeting was held at the home of SSFA board member R. W. Hynes. The outhouse does not currently appear to be in use. The existing woodstove appears to be the same one in the historic photo taken ca. 1900.
The Chicopee School is one of three remaining former district schools in Groton. The others include the former District 3 or Lawrence School (MHC #82) at the corner of Long Hill Road and Farmers Row. This is a privately owned brick building currently in use as an office. The brick building appears to have a modern chimney on the east side, and may have had a second floor added at some time based on the windows lighting the gable ends. It is in excellent condition and retains integrity of location and materials. The former District 10 or Prescott School (MHC #67) is at 385 Boston Road (State Route 119) and is in use as a private residence. This brick building, (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 8 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA which has been highly altered with the construction of a hipped roof and a shed-roofed addition at the rear, is nearly unrecognizable as a former schoolhouse. Thus, the Chicopee School is the best-maintained example of Groton's district schools, and is the only one of the three surviving examples that retains integrity of design. The Sawtell School Fund Association, designated a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization in 2003, currently holds parts of its quarterly meetings in the school and assists the public school system il administering a local history program for 5* and 8th graders in the building. The Josiah Sawtell (occasionally spelled Sartell) School Fund was established by the wealthy namesake's last will and testament in 1775, prior to construction of the existing building. Col.
Sawtell's will provided for the bequest to the town of one of his farms (either formerly or currently) located nearby the current school building and for the proceeds of the property, which was to be rented to a tenant farmer, to be applied to the keeping of a "woman's" or summer-term school in a part of the farmhouse. The rental income decreased after some years, which prompted the association to obtain permission in 1814 from the General Court to sell the farm and invest the money, the interest of which would be used to support the woman's school in District #7, a mission the association continues to uphold. The association has within the last five years replaced broken windows with modern 6/6 double-hung sash (the window configuration copied from a 19th century photo of the school), installed new asphalt shingles on the roof, and repaired the chimney.
The ongoing program of thoughtful maintenance and interest in the history of the building assure that the Chicopee School will remain a well-maintained feature of the cultural landscape in Groton. Archaeological Significance Since patterns of ancient Native American settlement in Groton are poorly understood, any surviving sites on the nominated property could be significant. Ancient sites in this area may contribute important information relating to Native American subsistence and settlement patterns in the Central Massachusetts/Worcester Plateau uplands and the Nashua River drainage. Potential Native sites on the nominated property may be limited to smaller, short-term campsites, with a focus on upland resources and secondary wetlands.
Ancient Native American resources on the school property may contain important information that associates them on a functional, seasonal, and temporal basis with larger habitation sites located near the Nashua River to the west. Historic archaeological resources described above may contribute important information related to the evolution of the school structure, related facilities, and the social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the students and their families from 1833 to 1916. Later historic archaeological resources at the school may continue to contribute important information related to the school and Groton community. The school building continued as a focal point of the neighborhood after the school closing in 1916, being used as a social hall and meeting place.
Additional documentary research combined with archaeological survey and testing may identify structural evidence and (continued) (Rev. 10-90)NPS Form 10-90 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 9 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA artifacts that document the evolution of the structure and related outbuildings and occupational- was present. Detailed analysis of the contents of occupational related features may contribute important social, cultural, and economic evidence related to the lives of the students, their families, and neighborhood residents. The evidence described above may exist in stratified deposits that enable changes in the student body and neighborhood to be viewed over time. (end) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA Section number 9-10 Page 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY Beal, Isabel. Unpublished manuscript on history of the Chicopee Row School. May, 1976. From the files of Lois Chapman Knight. Beers, F. W. Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: 1875. Available at the State Library Special Collections and collection of the author. Burk, Frederic. "Normal Schools and the Training of Teachers," Published in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 81, Issue 488. Boston: June, 1898. Available at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ Butler, Caleb. Groton. Map. 1832. Available at the Massachusetts State Library, Special Collections and GPL. Butler, Caleb. History of the Town of Groton. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1848.
Narrative history of Ayer's predecessor town from the point of view of an antiquarian. Available at the Groton Public Green, Samuel Abbott. Groton Historical Series. Groton, Massachusetts: 1877-1899. GPL. Guild, Reuben A. "A District School Seventy Years Ago." Published in The New England Magazine. Boston: June, 1898. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ Knight, Lois Chapman. Historic Document and Photo Collection. Knight, Lois Chapman. Interviews, March-October, 2005. Martin, George H. "The District School and the Academy in Massachusetts." Published in The New England Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 4. Boston: December, 1893. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Survey Report for the Town of Groton, 1980. Available at the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Mass. Archives Building, Boston. Murray, Barbara, Deborah E.
Johnson and Jayme Kulesz, editors. Groton at 350. Published by the Town of Groton: 2005. Powell, E. P. "The Romance of Pioneering." Published in The New England Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 3. Boston: November, 1899. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ (continued) District 7 School Name of Property Middlesex, MA County and State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than one acre UTM References See continuation sheet. (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1. 19 Zone 2. Zone 291040 Easting 4722840 Northing 3. Zone Easting Northing Easting Northing "Zone Easting Northing - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title.
Sanford Johnson, Consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization_Massachusetts Historical Commission _ date _ December 2007 street & number220 Morrissey Boulevard .telephone617-727-8470 city or town_ Boston _ state_MA _ zip code_02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property.
Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item atthe request oftheSHPO or FPO.) name Town of Groton, MA street & number- 173 Main Street _telephone 978-448-1100 city or town Groton stateMA zip code 01450 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9-10 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA Sawtell School Fund Association. Meeting minutes, 1816-2005. Collection of Lois Chapman Knight.
Torrey, Eva Belle. Diaries of a Groton Resident and Chicopee School Student, 1891-1894. Unpublished. From the collections of Lois Chapman Knight and Floyd A. Jaquay. Torrey, Nelson Newell. Diaries of a Groton Resident, 1865-1900. Unpublished. From the collections of Lois Chapman Knight and Floyd A. Jaquay. Town of Groton. Annual Town Reports. 1857-1960. Available at the local library, Local History Room. (end) GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description: The Chicopee School occupies the parcel of land on Chicopee Row adjacent to the corner of Sawell Doive labeled by the assessor's map 231 as lot 91. The boundaries of this lot coincide Boundary Justification: The boundaries of the nominated property were determined by following the outline of the building lot of the Chicopee School. All land in the parcel and the building have been included in the nomination. (end) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number photos Page 1 PHOTOGRAPHS Photographer: Sanford Johnson Date: October 2005 Negatives located with: Groton Historical Commission 1. North View along Chicopee Row 2. East view exterior 3. South view exterior 4. West view interior OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page Sketch Map: North toward top 231-87 231-18 231-16 231-17 SHICOPEE ROW 231-89 231-88 231-90 231-15 231/91 232-9 231-92 232-13 232-15 232-14 232-16 232-17 232-18 232-12 281-93 SAWTELL DRIVE OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 District 7 School Groton (Middlesex), MA 230-19 2.00 AG 1.89 A0 21'A. BM.I.
2.88 Ac - 274,7: M.L. rerTas mur be Chiopee Schoo/ Gotor, Middesex(o. MASS. MCLAIN'S- WOODS ROAD 27.01 SROTON COHSERVATION TRUS! MCLAIN'S WOOD: 225-55 2282 TETE STROP //1.25% 48!1 11 od' 12.15 225-55 231-2 232-4 TuIC MAD IC rAO ACereCUEuT DllDbAerel IT IS NOT VALIC FOR LEGAL DESCRIPTION OR CONVEYANCE. THE HORIZONTAL DATUM IS THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE PLANE COORDINATE SYSTEM. NAD 83 PHOTOGRAPHY DATE: NOVEMBER 25,1998 OCTOBER 29, 1999 PRODUCED IN 1999 BY CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOC. INC. PROFESSIONAL GIS CONSULTANTS 130%. 31a 3.3 8 32 1.3 AcC 20150 E AREA SURVEYEL REA CALCULATED 426.000 D 150 1.25Ao E 1700. 221.01 RA BsaA. 2010.20 1.0 c 102. 32004 1° 9, 78 1,2 0 p. 3.0160 50A.27 8182. 2.43 Ac 37.85 21 S07.05 O Sn 157.
122015 371.38 ML B ML LEGEND WETLANDS TOWN OSGROTON FLOYD CONSERVATION AREA WRP2 /232- SCALE 1' = 200 REVISED TO : JANUARY 1, 2005 PROPERTY MAPS GROTON MACCACHUSSTTC WRP1 EASEMEN 232-54 INDEX DIAGRAM 227/2 MAP NO. 231 UNITED STATES DEPARIMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY District 7 School NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 12/17/07 1/26/08 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/11/08 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/30/08 REFERENCE NUMBER: 07001487 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: REQUEST: N PDIL: SAMPLE: PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 1-29.08 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N N N red 1n 406 sational Rariste RECOM.
/CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE TELEPHONE - DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS. Chicopce School grotow Mddesck Co. Mos 5. Johuso~ Photo 10/05 Nas on file W/GHC worth view 68061 12/06 PHOTO #1 chicopee Schrool frotor, middlesex Co. Moss. S. JohNouN Photo 10/05 veçs on file W/ GHC. Exst view PItOTO #Z Uricopec Schrao! groton, Middesex co. Moss 5 Johoso~ Photo 10/05 Negs un fite wGHC south View 6836213 27002 +08+88+86186 MAAAAA 12/06/05 CUS PHOTo #3 CAptale FaTER Wurrrs Fox 291, 5° WRKG LAN COReY Chicopee Schoul groton, Middlesex Co.
Mass Sauford Fehusun photo 10/05 Negs or File w/ aHc Interior west view PHOTO #4 15941 famte 1/28/05 17002 +00+00+00-06 00008 HAZA TENO LACIDAN SKS LIBEATAT RECEIVED 2280 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts?E^ 7-097 William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission December 10, 2007 Mr. J. Paul Loether National Register of Historic Places RECEIVED 2280 DEC 17 2007 NAT. REGISTER OF HiS/ Us4: +r NATIONAL PARE SEEE Washington, DC 20005 Dear Mr. Loether: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: District 7 School, Chicopee Row, Groton (Middlesex), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 45 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment.
Sincerely,, Betsy tredkey Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure cc: Sanford Johnson, consultant George F. Dillon, Jr., Chair, Groton Board of Selectmen Sawtell School Fund Alvin Collins, Groton Historical Commission George E. Barringer, Jr., Groton Planning Board 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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