The Village of Lewis started to be developed in 1818. One of the first buildings was the Lewis Hotel owned and operated by David Sykes. It was located on the corner where Route 9 meets Fox Run Road until it burned down on October 1, 1961. The Village soon consisted of a store, dwelling house, barn, and school house. The school ~ Lewis Central District School 2 - was located behind the Lewis Hotel. It received children from a three-mile radius. It was surrounded on three sides by the cemetery leaving no room to play so students played on the Kendall property, opposite the school where there was a field and barn. In 1887 the Central School was the second school built in Lewis. The school was one room until 1895 when an addition was added. This made it into a two-room school house with a smaller room for the first four grades and the larger room for the higher grades. Around 1922 there were more improvements with the addition of two shared flush toilets and sinks. On Mondays, students were issued paper cups for the week from which they could drink water from the sinks. In 1937 the school centralized to Elizabethtown Lewis Central School (Marker Number 3.)

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