This is of course the "Colchester Log Schoolhouse" #4 we all know and love. It has been relocated and historically restored as a Museum and Information Center at Airport Park by our Society.
This schoolhouse was located at Chimney Corners...so called after the Allen Family's homestead that burned to the ground leaving only the chimney standing at that location for a very long time.
This one room schoolhouse was located on the north corner of Farnsworth and East Roads. Florence Adelia Cloe is the girl in the far back right...while her sister Persis Cloe is the girl in the center front to the right of the tall lad.
Colchester's education system was divided into fourteen separate districts. By having 14 one room schoolhouses spread
throughout the town, the travel distance was always cut to a minimum as you were assigned to a school close to where you lived.
This schoolhouse was erected to replace the older "South Beach Log Schoolhouse" #4, built in 1815, that was
condemned in 1927 for insufficient lighting, inadequate ventilation and sanitary conditions in general. Note the much larger windows.
So called as I believe this schoolhouse was located near Poor Farm Road on the Blakely Road.
This school was also called "The Colchester Academy".
Billed as a "Superior School" while in
existence, it later served as a dance hall and auction place. It is now a private home on "Old US #2", just around the corner from Brown Ledge Camp.
Until the Union Upper school was built this school was the central unit that served the town. The other one room schoolhouses were being phased out during this time period.
This school is if course not a one room schoolhouse. As a consolidation of the many other existing one room schools, it hastened their demise. It was also previously called the White School as well as the Lionel Pauquette School.
