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Fox Hill School

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DanversMA FoxHillSchool
DanversMA FoxHillSchool

The Fox Hill School is a historic school building at 81 Water Street in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1879 and in use as a school until the 1970s, it is one of two surviving one-room schoolhouses in the town. It now houses a preschool. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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