. Annual report, [1st]- [1896/97]- . hiy--;. ;; PEABODY TOWN HALL, LOWELL STREET, PEABODY, MASS., 1883. DONATED BY GEORGE H. JACOBS. town i)uii)oses, was tfivon over for the use of the school. Some years laterthe building was enlarged, but even this failed to accommodate the influxi>f puj)ils desirous of getting a high school education. The main room wascrowded and every class room was overflowing. The school committee re-peatedly calhul tlie attention of the town to the necessity of a new housewith greater accommodations, and this uiovement grew, until the matterwas brought befor
. Annual report, [1st]- [1896/97]- . hiy--;. ;; PEABODY TOWN HALL, LOWELL STREET, PEABODY, MASS., 1883. DONATED BY GEORGE H. JACOBS. town i)uii)oses, was tfivon over for the use of the school. Some years laterthe building was enlarged, but even this failed to accommodate the influxi>f puj)ils desirous of getting a high school education. The main room wascrowded and every class room was overflowing. The school committee re-peatedly calhul tlie attention of the town to the necessity of a new housewith greater accommodations, and this uiovement grew, until the matterwas brought before the town in March, 1901, when the committee was ap-pointed to consider the question of a new higii school house. In the fol-lowing year the same committee was authorized to buj a suitable piece ofhmtl, erect a l)uilding thereon and furnish it; and the suui of $95,000 wasplaced at the disposal of the committee to carry out the wisiies of the town,to be increased two years later by an additional $10,000, so that the under-taking mig
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