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Woodman Park School

Woodman Park School

In 1950 the Woodman Park School, the largest elementary school in New Hampshire at that time, was built off of Silver Street for approximately one million dollars. The Belknap, Hale and Varney schools were closed and their students were sent to Woodman Park Elementary School.

Woodman Park SchoolCirca 1965

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