Introducing . . . Burlington High School
Before Burlington had a high school, students had to go out of town and pay tuition. Details here. The first BHS students graduated in 1940. These photos belonged to Elsie Barchard, a very early BHS grad. Special thanks to her daughter, Susan Kelly.
Brand new Burlington High School. You can see the sign if you squint.
Brand new Burlington High School, 1939
Margaret Carroll, Elsie Barchard, Gloria Boselle
Elsie Barchard at the original Burlington High School, 61 Center Street, in 1943
Mary (last name?) and Elsie Barchard on the new high school campus
Elsie and Joan Humphrey, 1938
Elsie and Joan Humphrey, 1938
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I am wondering if the Elsie Blanchard in the pictures above is related to my grade school principal in the 1950, Miss Blanchard?
Elsie Barchard, not Blanchard.
My family is from the Southend of Burlington, including Lexington,early grades in Burlington including being in Union school, later she graduated from Lexington high school 1943 Mrs Mary Marashion Gouveia RIP✝️🌹🙏
Class of BHS ‘74 went to Meadowbrook for four years (1-4).
the picture of that high school I went to in the fifth grade as the “center school”and played lunchtime basketball in the rec department there for 25 years from mid 90’s to 2017
. I went to the Francis Wyman middle school on the first day that the school originally opened from six grade until on Terrace Hall Ave , then the high school of its day 72 and 73 on Wynn Street
no I think you call a Marshall Simonds.
I finished in 74 at the new high school which opened in 73 which is now 50 years old. Cambridge Street.
I grew up in the Sunset Drive area, and where the teachers parking lot with all the blasted out rock was my sandlot baseball field before that school opened.
Great post. Lot of things not seen before. Were them from a family collection?
One of the interesting facts about the original BHS is that it was only used as the High School for 20 years
Then the second high school was even shorter-lived.
The original BHS had grades 7 through 12 in it. When we moved to Burlington in the spring of 1952 my oldest sister was in the 7th grade and was in the BHS and my middle sister and I at the Union School. All of the students in Burlington fit into those two schools. Two years later my middle sister went to the 7th grade there. When I got to the 7th grade in the fall of 1956 BHS had double sessions with the grades 9 through 12 going in the morning and 7th and 8th going in the afternoon. Two years later only half of the 9th grade and the entire 10th through 12th grades fit into BHS. The next two years only the 10th through 12 grades were in BHS. By the fall of 1961 the new “High School” on on Winn Street opened. It had the 8th through 12th grades in it. Since there were approximately 100 students in the 12th grade and 300 in the 8th grade it sure didn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that it was just a matter of time for the school on Winn Street to be too small for the 9th through 12 grades.
Thank you Susan! Great pictures to share!!