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District 7 Cobblestone Schoolhouse
| Historic Site #: | 09-036 (Exists) Type: D1,E3 | Town: | Palmyra | ||
| Site Name: | District 7 Cobblestone Schoolhouse | GPS Coordinates: | 43.090412, -77.157278 | ||
| Address: | 4701 North Creek Rd, Newark, NY | ||||
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| East Palmyra District 7 school house on the west side of the intersection of North Creek and Lyons roads was built in 1846. It is about a mile north of Port Gibson. It was closed in 1924 with the opening of East Palmyra Union Free School No. 2. In 1929 it was sold to Jacob O’Meal Jr. He used it to store farm implements. He widened the door by nearly six feet and replaced the wooden floor with concrete. After he built his new shop nearby in 1946 O’Meal let the East Palmyra Fire Department to use it to store a new fire truck. It was sold to Glenn Young in 1970 who continued to use it for storage. It is mostly constructed of lake washed red sandstone cobbles. The lintels and quoins are quarried limestone. | |||||
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| photo by Bavis 1-1-14 |
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| Cobblestone District #7 Schoolhouse Address: Corner of Lyon Road & North Creek Road, East Palmyra Year Built: 1846 A log schoolhouse first sat on this location, built before 1805. While the cobblestone schoolhouse was being built in 1846, classes may have been held in the Clark House. Stone school benches can still be found in the Clark House, and the original owner, Maltby Clark, was a schoolteacher. The schoolhouse was built mainly with small, red cobbles on a field-stone foundation. A plaque on the front reads “Jacob B. O'Meal Jr. 1946.” He was the owner (a farm equipment dealer) who enlarged the front door to allow for machinery storage. The schoolhouse is showing wear with cracks and crumbling stone sections. But, it has new wooden gutters and a wood shingle roof. The side windows are now shuttered. Notice the old cemetery across Lyon Road. | |||||
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