The Old South End Schoolhouse in Southington, a one-room school, was built sometime after 1810, when the original and smaller schoolhouse on the site, built around 1760, burned down. The schoolhouse was in use until the new South End Elementary School opened in 1955. The old schoolhouse is now owned and operated as a museum by the Southington Historical Society.
Old South End Schoolhouse, Southington (1810)
Member of the last first-grade class – 6 of us whose names I still remember since we all went through high school together. I remember walking to the “new school”, box filled with crayons, pencils and workbooks! Wonderful teacher – Mrs. Cushing I think – who handled three grades simultaneously and some great memories.
Mrs. Conway, not Cushing