The Southwest District School, on Simsbury Road in Bloomfield, was built of local traprock in 1858. It served as a one-room schoolhouse until 1923. Now owned by the Wintonbury Historical Society, the School’s roof and underlying structures were restored in 2002.

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Southwest District School, Bloomfield (1858)

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