Quakertown Online_Lambtown School

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

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"

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?"

Dr. McGuigan's School Days -- Her account given in Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple

Samuel S. Lamb -- John Avery's profile of the long-time teacher. "Over 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"

'Little Red Schoolhouse'

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 .

Photos of the Lambtown Area, old and new

Site of the Lambtown School, now site of a private house.