Schoolhouse Views in Dennysville, Maine
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The Schoolhouse in Dennysville, Maine, was built in 1857 with the town hall upstairs to replace an earlier schoolhouse that had been relocated to accommodate the building of the Congregational Meetinghouse in 1834, just hundred feet to the south. The building served as a grammar school, and Town Hall, eventually incorporating a high school in 1894, until June 1961, when the Dennysville schools were closed, and the students sent elsewhere. The building stood idle and was razed in 1966.
A schoolhouse was first erected at this location in 1800 to accommodate a growing number of pupils. It was replaced with a larger building in 1817, which in turn was moved one hundred feet to the southwest in 1833 to allow for construction of the Congregational Church building. In 1857 the "Old School" was torn down and replaced with a two story grammar school, with rooms above for a Town Hall that eventually became the high school in 1894. The school was closed in 1961, with students going to the Edmunds Consolidated School and Shead High School in Eastport, or Washington Academy in East Machias. The building was torn down in a few years later.
Dennys River Historic PhotographsJohn P. Sheahan CollectionPhotos for Map
