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ONE-ROOM SCHOOL

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Education
Location
5999-5991 Loomis Rd, Pitcher, NY 13136, USA
Lat/Long
42.59908, -75.88248
Grant Recipient
Taylor Historical Society
Historic Marker

ONE-ROOM SCHOOL

Inscription

ONE-ROOM SCHOOL
BUILT ON THIS SITE IN 1868
FOR DIST #5. CHILDREN
EDUCATED HERE UNTIL SCHOOL
CLOSED IN 1897. STUDENTS
THEN SENT TO PITCHER SCHOOL.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019

In 1868, a motion carried to sell the district’s old school house, and another to build a school house on land owned by William Gorseline. In 1897 the District voted to send its students to another district, the Pitcher School, which they did.