| Redstone School | |
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 The building in 2007 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°21′31″N 71°28′16″W / 42.358650°N 71.471215°W / 42.358650; -71.471215 |
| Completed | 1798 (226 years ago) (1798) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 1 |
The Redstone School is a one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school to which Mary Sawyer took her lamb in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
At the time of Sawyer's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford and relocated around 20 miles (32 km) to the east, to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today. Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.
After closing in 1927, prior to its move, the school reopened for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four. It closed permanently in 1951.
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.
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References
- "U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ^ Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, 2019-08-03, retrieved 2022-11-22
- Crane, Ellery Bicknell (1907). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 377.
- Bryan, F.R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-8143-3684-7. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
- ^ Bryan, Ford R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381.