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In the winter of 1859, a small grammar school situated in Bond Head was loaded on a sled and pulled by horses to the newly formed town of Bradford.  The building was situated on a plot of land between Fletcher and Queen Streets to become the first High School in Bradford.

The first teacher in Bradford was Susan Cassidy, who moved from the Island of Jersey to Campobello Island with her family in 1835 when she was 12 years old.  She began teacher there under her father’s supervision.  In 1837, when the family moved to Bradford, Miss. Cassidy resumed her teaching. 

In a letter written in 1859, Superintendent Fletcher told the Chief Superintendent of Schools of his pleasure with education in Bradford.  “I have to express my satisfaction at the excellent order of the school of the village during the year and the great interest taken in it by the inhabitants and I have great pleasure in saying that it stands at the head of common schools of the county.”