OVER THE YEARS, many Quakertown young people attended this one-room school. Located in Ledyard, Connecticut, on Lambtown Road (mid-way between Route 117 and Col. Ledyard Highway, on what is now the lot of a house built during the 1960s), Lambtown School educated generations of neighborhood young people before its closing in 1949. According to Historic Ledyard, Volume V (Ledyard Historical Society, 2006), the building's "construction and original boards" suggested it had been built in the 1850s (118). The Town of Ledyard closed the school when it opened a modern consolidated grammar school in Ledyard Center, and the Lambtown School building was demolished sometime during the middle 1960s.
Information
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Memories of Lambtown School -- By Irene Watrous Schultz. "On real cold days we all sat down in front near the fire until the room warmed up"
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Ledyard Annual Reports -- Excerpts relevant to Lambtown School, 1930-1949. "Mrs. Eleanor B. Whipple... was able to interest the children in good attendance records and further made of the school a most pleasant place in which to be. If it were not so why did so many show up every day in the year regardless of weather conditions?"
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Dr. McGuigan's School Days -- Her account given in Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple. "We began Latin and algebra early with Samuel Lamb and most of the scholars thrived on it"
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NEW !
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Teaching of Samuel S. Lamb -- Complete text of the commemorative booklet printed following the 1883 celebration and containing a record of its proceedings. "Rising one thousand pupils, first and last, have been under his instruction, for which he received about $7,000, or, on an average, $140 per year"
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Souvenir of the 1897-98 School Year -- Presented by teacher Mary Lamb to all students at the close of the school year, this two-board keepsake includes a list of all forty students then enrolled in the school
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Photographs
Individuals shown in some of the following photographs have not been identified. Help with identifications is welcome--as are additional photographs, memorabilia, or written memories. Please send e-mail to schultz3025@comcast.net .
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School Picture, ca. 1910 ??
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School Picture, ca. 1912
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School Picture, ca. 1936
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School Picture, ca. 1940
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School Picture, ca. 1940
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School Picture, ca. 1941
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Informal Group (Boys), ca. 1942
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School Picture, ca. 1943
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School Picture, ca. 1943
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Informal Group, ca. 1943
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School Picture, ca. 1946
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Informal Picture, ca. 1948
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School Picture, ca. 1948
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School Reunion, early 1950s
Site of the Lambtown School, now site of a private house.
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