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The First District school records provide a fascinating glimpse of education in early Granby. The opening entry is dated December 14, 1807.
Part 1 of a series on early Granby education. A small house nestled on Salmon Brook Street near the firehouse was originally a one-room school.
Samuel Benjamin IV was a local entrepreneur who bought and sold many Granby properties through the years. The Benjamin family has a long history in Granby, Hartland and Granville, Mass.
The site of the telephone company building at 6 Park Place was once occupied by a much earlier building. It went through many changes and many owners and eventually was moved to a different location.
Four generations of Avery’s lived at 2 Park Place from 1925 when Bertha Rice Avery bought the house, until it was sold in 2016 for business suites. George W. Avery came to Granby from Chenango Co.