Photo 23-TLU-35

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Little Meadows Nursery School (white buildings)

From Louise M Dixon's obituary:

In 1959, Mrs. Dixon started Little Meadows Nursery School by converting a former warehouse and factory building. It was a neighborhood effort too, her son said. A farmer who could weld helped. Early teachers came from the area.

The school in the early 1980s had more than 200 students divided between half-day sessions and 15 teachers. Children could swing on an indoor swing set and climb on a model dinosaur outdoors. The school had child-sized farm animals for the students to feed and pet and observe - chicks hatched from eggs incubated onsite; rabbits, ponies, a donkey or two, goats.

Note: The only thing I can find about the former factory was that Frank Madore owned a house there in 1949. The factory buildings are there by 1955.

Note: Frank Madore owned the house here in 1949. The factory buildings are there by 1955. I was told by the Dixon family that the old buildings were a potato chip factory.

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