HomeMy WebLinkAboutapplegate school fall 2021 Sue Thompson NL ArticleEnfield History – Sue Thompson, Enfield Historian, historian@townofenfield.org
Town of Enfield Timeline has been updated, from the Enfield History Book - The Town of Enfield, New York – Christian Hill to Enfield Falls, 2002. A copy of this document can be located
on www.townofenfield.org - Archived Documents. It can also be found on the Enfield Community Council web page: www.enfieldcommunitycouncil.org.
District #5 Enfield School – Stone School House (Reference: Ithaca Journal September 25, 1957. Slim Volume Tell History of 83 Year Old Enfield School District 5. Lois O’Connor
In March 13, 1832 Joseph S. and Martha Hulse sold to Enfield School District 5 one half acre of land on Military Lot 54, east side of Applegate Road south of State Route 79. (Deed Enfield
T 415 Enf/Uly). Samuel Rolfe, Parvis A. Williams and Samuel Potter were Trustees of the school. The school house was located “as near the spring on the lot as conveniently obtained”.
The building was 24 x 30 feet built of stone (Stone School House), hauled by the families of the school district. The School was indicated on the 1853 Town of Enfield Map and shown on
various maps the last one was the 1920 Compass Map of Enfield. In 1832 there were 50 students registered for the school and increasing to 71 in 1823. In 1840 the school seemed to start
having problems “as all desks on the north side be put on the south side and substantially bolted. Windows have to have latches and staples and a window glass was put in.” All parents
were liable for breaking windows when it was done willfully. In 1848 there was a fire in the schoolhouse and there was no record of the cost of fixing the building. Student attendance
from 1905 through 1916 went back and forth from 9 to 4 students. Starting in 1906 and going through 1914, District #5 contracted with Enfield Center District #6 to have their students
attend District 6 School. They still kept track of the students in order to pay District 6 the tuition and transportation for the students. District 5 was officially Annexed to District
#6 Enfield Center on July 12, 1916. According to Leroy Whittaker he remembered that the school was in in evidence as alate as 1918. The remains of this school house were used in road
construction of a now improved road that leads fro Applegate Corners. Some of the teachers at the school were:
1890 – 1891 Addie Tucker (1871 – 1960; she was a school teacher throughout her life, teaching in New York and New Jersey. She retired in 1933.)
1889 - 1892 Katie Hunt (1864 – 1839; she was a school teacher recording in the 1880 census; she taught school in Lansing for 35 years.
1892 - 1893 Hattie Mallory (Enfield Falls she was teaching in Lansingville in 1894. Both her parents died in 1890.
1893 1894 Alice Nobles (Mrs. Glenn Miller)1875 – 1966
1894 - 1895 Nancy E. Wallenbeck (1845 - 1919) Taught school for 50 years.
1894 Angie Harker (Mrs. Edwin Starr)1875 – 1960.
1895 - 1896 Laura P. Peck
1897 - 1898 Frances L. Brown; Margaret Hollister ; Edna O. Updike (1878 – 1964)(Mrs. Edward Kirby)
1899 – 1900 Nettie (Lottie) Byrum (husband William Hamblin) (1877 – 1948)Listed in 1900 census as school teacher, by 1915 she was married to William Hamblin and was keeping house).
1901 – 1902 Belle Hubbell
1904 1905 Minnie M. Wallenbeck
1905 – 1906 Anna Aiken