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*The November Club was the first women's club in Andover.  It was formed in 1889 after Miss Elizabeth Handy called a meeting of 15 "well-educated, enterprising, and socially elite women" in November 1888 to discuss her idea to start a women's club.
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*The club first met at 126 Main St., but, after 20 more women joined, moved to Abbot Hall.
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*In February 1892 they dedicated a new clubhouse on Love Lane, now called Locke Street.
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*The November Club raised money for local charities, the war efforts, and to build their Locke Street clubhouse. They give dance lessons to young people, and had guest speakers.
 
*By 1985 membership had fallen and the clubhouse was sold to the Unitarian Universalist Church.  The money was given to Memorial Hall Library to furnish a November Club reading room.
 
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*Town Had First Clubhouse "for Ladies Wholly" by Karen Wakeling, Andover Historical Society. ''Andover Townsman'' January 19, 2012. p.8.
 
*November Club Yearbooks, 1907-1967 in Andover Room at Memorial Hall Library
 
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