Hanover, NH School District 12

Date(s): 1826 to 1868

Abstract Manuscript notebook with minutes of meetings usually held at the district’s schoolhouse, comprised of regular elections of school committees, moderators, and clerks; appropriation of specified amounts of money for winter and summer classes. The late 1840’s saw the election of a building committee to purchase land and raise a new schoolhouse – for which the contract was sold by auction to a named builder for a specified sum. In 1850 District #12 hired its first female teacher, who received 56...