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Grafton '07Class of 2007 · Grafton, MA

Grafton High School · Class of 2007

Twenty years later, same crew.

Register for the reunion, find the people you lost track of, and help us build something that outlasts one night.

Where we are from

Grafton, since 1735

A short version of the long story, and where our class fits in it.

  1. c. 1660

    Hassanamesit

    Nipmuc families and missionary John Eliot form the "praying village" of Hassanamesit — "place of small stones." Four acres on Brigham Hill remain in Nipmuc hands today.

  2. 1735

    Grafton is incorporated

    Named by Governor Belcher for his friend Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton. The Common was laid out three years later.

  3. 1837

    Shoe town

    The year Grafton made 671,000 pairs of shoes. Ethan Allen had started making firearms in town five years earlier.

  4. 1935

    The bandstand

    Hollywood built the gazebo on the Common for "Ah, Wilderness!" and left it behind. It has been rebuilt since, but it is still where the town gathers.

  5. 1963

    Our building

    The high school on Lake Ripple that we walked into as freshmen. It became Grafton Middle School when the new GHS opened in 2012.

  6. 2007

    Us

    Green and white, Grafton Indians, the last class to graduate before smartphones took over. Twenty years on, we are still the same crew.

Sources: Town of Grafton · Grafton Historical Society · Willard House & Clock Museum. Got a correction or a better story? That is what the class feed is for.