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The Birth of Once upon a time, long- ago, when Chelsea was just a serene little town of winding roads, trees, parks, and wooded hills, far from being the thriving industrial center in which we now live, the first Chelsea Senior High School was established. The date, 1847, marked the beginning of years of plan¬ ning, progress, failures, and success, in maintaining a high school of the highest standards. Every day, sixty young people, girls with their starched skirts rustling as they walked, and boys in their high, stiff collars, took their places for the opening class in the little room on the second floor of Low ' s 11 all, which could hardly be called a school In this cramped space over a store on Broadway near Everett Avenue where Craft’s now stands, the foundation was laid for one of the most outstanding high schools in all New England, one from which thousands of voting people would emerge, many to become great men and women, a credit to their city and their school, and others, although perhaps less illustrious as civic or national figures, to see their children and grandchildren follow in their footsteps along the corridors of Chelsea High School. Rumney Marsh — First school for Chelsea and surrounding districts. Carey School served as the high school from But as the prosperity and population of the little community began to expand, the neces¬ sity and demand for suitable education and college preparation for young people who had completed grammar school became more evi¬ dent, eventually the tiny space of the “two by four classroom with its high, small windows and creaking desks became inadequate for so staggering a number of enrollments. The am¬ bitious interests of parents and civic leaders made possible the erection of the first high school building in 18 0, known as the Cary School. This school, with its high windows and large square rooms, was used for primary grades until very recently when condemned because of dangerous construction and fire hazards. After ninety-seven years of faithful service, the tired old school retired to sit back and watch its successors carry on. As the population of Chelsea (which had obtained enough recognition to become a city in 1S47) grew each year, even the building that had been constructed in 1850 was not suf¬ ficient to hold the students that flocked to be enrolled. By 1872 the need for a new building was so acute that a completely new and modern high school was built near the foot of Belling¬ ham hill. The Bellingham School consisted of two floors of classrooms, complete with a labora¬ tory in the basement and the “very newest improvement out” in ventilation systems, a high fan at the top of the building which, when 1850 to 1872. 2
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