
Taken on
01/17/08
Old Pool Schoolhouse, corner of Route 22 and Stone Road (dead end), across from Pool Road, Theresa
area.
Roof partially fallen in, windows and doors boarded up. Thanks to Gerald D. for the suggestion and location.
Update 02/07/11, the building
continues to fall down:

Update 5/29/11, this appears to have been burned down.


Roberta
D. C-E writes "My grandmother Mabel Sophronia DeYoung Calhoun taught at the Pool
School in 1913 before she went to nursing school. I have photos of the school
back then with her students. She also had a number of photos of the Old Stone
House back behind the school, taken c. 1910-1916. I don't know if she boarded
there in the winter? Someone in the area put together a keepsake of the school
including her photo, a list of her students, and some of the poems and readings
they used back then. It was given to Gerald D., who gave it to me. I took some
photos of this building in 1999 and it had not yet started to collapse. More of
it disappears each year."
Roberta
also sent some pictures from August of 1999 before the building started to collapse;




Taken on
04/15/08
Another angle

 Research done by 'Briarscratch': "The burned down stone house at the intersection of Lockie Rd and Scotch
Settlement road was actually built by Andrew Lockie as the first schoolhouse
supporting the Scottish immigrants in that area.
It was actually inhabited until about 5 years ago when it burned.
Back then, the first thing the settlers did was clear the land and make potash
from all the burned brush and lumber. Often, in addition to a milk cow or two,
the Scot settlers raised sheep - something they were familiar with and because
of the wool they provided. There was also a lot of haying going on in support of
the local industries - glass in Redwood, mining all around the area, charcoal
making and for the foundries." Also see the Lockie House on the
next page.
|