1958

POPULATION:  12,620 (est)

HOUSES:  3,077

 

SCHOOLS 

• Town purchases 21 acres from Bird family for planned construction of East Junior High School
• New teacher appointment James Quinn (Junior High math)

BUILDINGS

• Walpole Cooperative Bank moves into re-modeled former telephone building on Main Street at the corner of Stone Street

•  Walpole Footlighters drama organization opens theater on Polly Lane

• Town sells 62 acres in the Cedar Juncion area (Main Street, South Walpole) to Edgewood Properties for development of an industrial park.
• Park Department requests power mower to attach to tractor to expedite mowing of town land.