Redstone School | |
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![]() The building in 2007 | |
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General information | |
Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Coordinates | 42°21′31″N 71°28′16″W / 42.358650°N 71.471215°W |
Completed | 1798 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 1 |
The Redstone School is an historic one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts. [1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school which Mary Sawyer took her lamb to in the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb". [2] [3]
At the time of Tyler's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford [4] and relocated to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today. [2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn. [5]
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. [5] It closed permanently in 1951. [2] [5]
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.
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 |
Completed | 1798 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 1 |
The Redstone School is an historic one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts. [1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school which Mary Sawyer took her lamb to in the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb". [2] [3]
At the time of Tyler's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford [4] and relocated to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today. [2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn. [5]
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. [5] It closed permanently in 1951. [2] [5]
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.