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Laura Seeley, an Andover High graduate, wrote the several children's books and illustrated others.   
In the late 1880's Moses Stevens connected the Marland Mills - one in Andover, one in Haverhill, and one in North Andover - by telephoneThis was the first telephone in Andover. Moses Stevens had bought Marland Mills from Abraham Marland in 1879.


In the 1958 dial telephones came to Andover.  The first exchange was Greenleaf (475).  Andover originally had a 617 area code.  It was first changed to 508 and finally to 978 in 1977.


*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=518445&t=Magical%20Moonballs&tp=title&l=5&d=0&hc=1&rt=title ''Magical Moonballs'']
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*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=518373&t=Seeley%2C%20Laura%20L.&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=7&rt=author ''The Book of Shadowboxes : a Story of the ABCs'']
Laura is the illustrator of several children's books.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=307015&t=Seeley%2C%20Laura%20L.&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=7&rt=author ''The four-legged Ghosts''] by Mary Hoffman
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=202890&t=Seeley%2C%20Laura%20L.&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=7&rt=author ''Agatha's Feather Bed : Not Just Another Wild Goose Story''] by Carmen Agra Deedy
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1153127&t=Seeley%2C%20Laura%20L.&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=7&rt=author ''The Greatest Story Never Told : the Babe and Jackie''] by Ray Negron
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1033191&t=Seeley%2C%20Laura%20L.&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=7&rt=author ''The Boy of Steel : a Baseball Dream Come True''] by Ray Negron


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* [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=103693&t=historical%20sketches%20of%20andover&tp=title&d=0&hc=7&rt=title ''Historical Sketches of Andover''] by Sarah Loring Bailey, (974.45 Bai), p.590
* [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=487303&t=andover%20a%20century%20of%20change&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=2&rt=keyword''Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996''] by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), pages 84 and 147.
* "Area Code Changing Again", ''The Townsman'', July 24, 1997.
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* "This Author is Andover Grad", ''Andover Townsman'', November 19, 1990, page 44
* [http://www.lauraseeley.com/ Laura Seeley]




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In the late 1880's Moses Stevens connected the Marland Mills - one in Andover, one in Haverhill, and one in North Andover - by telephone. This was the first telephone in Andover. Moses Stevens had bought Marland Mills from Abraham Marland in 1879.

In the 1958 dial telephones came to Andover. The first exchange was Greenleaf (475). Andover originally had a 617 area code. It was first changed to 508 and finally to 978 in 1977.


See



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