Woodstock Tercentenary (1686 - 1986)

In 1690, Woodstock appointed its
first school master and built a
school in 1704. The first school
to serve this, The "West Parish"
was constructed in 1734.
Tradition says that a red school
house formerly stood on this site.
About 1873 it burned and was
replaced with the present
structure, always painted white,
explaining the name "Red - White
School." By 1883 there were
seventeen school districts of
which this was district eleven.

This building was used regularly
until 1929. During the following decade it
had occasional use before closing forever
about 1939. It was used for a time by the
Sunnyside Sunday School, and later owned by
the neighborhood mutual benefit society.
In 1969 it was acquired by The Woodstock
Historical Society as the only one room school
not converted to other uses and still
on its original site in this town.
Woodstock's one room schools were abandoned
with consolidation of students at the
Woodstock Elementary school in 1950.

Erected June 1, 1986
In celebration of Woodstock's 300th Anniversary

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