Redstone School

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Redstone School
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Redstone School
General information
Location Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates 42°21′31″N71°28′16″W / 42.358650°N 71.471215°W / 42.358650; -71.471215
Completed1798(227 years ago) (1798)
Technical details
Floor count1

The Redstone School is a one-room school located in the Wayside Inn Historic District of Sudbury, Massachusetts. [1] 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". [2] [3]

At the time of Sawyer's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. Since before the American Civil War, the building had served as a barn for a local Baptist Church parsonage. In early 1926, [4] the property was purchased by Henry Ford [5] 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. [2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn. [6]

On January 17, 1927, the building reopened as a school, [4] operating for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four. [6] It closed permanently in 1951. [2] [6]

The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.

References

  1. ↑ "U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, August 3, 2019, retrieved November 22, 2022
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 "School Made Famous by Mary and her Lamb Reopened Today". New Britain Herald. New Britain, Connecticut. January 7, 1927. p. 11. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  5. ↑ 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 August 17, 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 Bryan, Ford R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381.
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