March is Women's History Month. This month we will feature 100 photos of Oxford's women through history. 

Today's first photo of the Chestnut Tree Hill School was taken about 1897. Three of the students and the teacher are female. Notice the clothing of the girls. The students seated  in the front row, from left to right are: Atwater Treat, William Tucker, Lorena Tucker, and one unidentified student. The students standing in the back row are Sherman Tucker and Mary Treat on the left, the unidentified teacher in the center, and Emma Cable and Nelson Cable on the right.

The second photo shows Oxford Girl Scouts photographed in the early 1930's, but no local records of their first leaders are known to exist. The Girls Scout leader in this picture is Mrs. Buell, who lived on the corner of Chestnut Tree Hill & Rt. 42. Louise Pope is standing next to Mrs. Buell. There are two girls in the back row with hats on: the one on the left is Nellie Mosavich with her Girl Scout hat and kerchief; Bula Douillet Miles is on the right with most of her face hidden. The girl third from the left is Marian Treat DeBisschop. (Photo from Harger Collection of the Oxford Historical Society, courtesy of Helen Savage.)

The final photograph shows a group of women posing at Community Hall in Quaker Farms. They include, left to right, front row: Margery
Sauers, Elsie Stanton, Johanna Salvsen, Mabel Lum, Ella Hawkins, Bertha Christensen, and Gladys Olsen. In the rear, left to right, an unidentified woman, Leila Treat, Flora Lovdal, Ms. Tomlinson, Caroline Hall, Mary Barry, Etta Hubbell, Annie Tilquist Swenson, and Adele Beebe Tomlinson.
(Photo from Oxford Bicentennial Photo Exhibit; Dorie Petrochko, curator, provided the identification)

Coming at the end of this month, Oxford's MOST HISTORIC WOMAN. Can you guess who that might be?

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