MIDDLE DISTRICT SCHOOL, NORTH HAVEN
In 1845, islanders voted at Town Meeting to split the South District in order to establish an additional school known as the Middle District School. Soon after, a new schoolhouse was built along the South Shore Road. Approximately twenty years later, records indicate a new school was built across the road, near the entrance to the Waterman Farm Road. The Middle District schoolhouse remained open until 1898. After closing, the building gradually went into disrepair and fell down, with only the foundation stones remaining.
Benjamin Crabtree, wrote in 1888 about visiting the Middle District school he attended during the 1850s:
I entered the school room and carefully inspected every seat and the marks upon them. I [saw] everything as it was thirty years ago, the same identical seat where I used to sit, the same marks upon the benches, the same shelf where we kept our books, the same door we used to come in, the same windows we looked through, and in fact it was the same old, old schoolhouse where we happy boys and girls of thirty years ago and more would assemble from day to day during the school terms to pursue our studies, amid the blustering storms of bleak winter and the scorching sun of summer.
Benjamin Crabtree, wrote in 1888 about visiting the Middle District school he attended during the 1850s:
I entered the school room and carefully inspected every seat and the marks upon them. I [saw] everything as it was thirty years ago, the same identical seat where I used to sit, the same marks upon the benches, the same shelf where we kept our books, the same door we used to come in, the same windows we looked through, and in fact it was the same old, old schoolhouse where we happy boys and girls of thirty years ago and more would assemble from day to day during the school terms to pursue our studies, amid the blustering storms of bleak winter and the scorching sun of summer.