Lyons Hill School Edmunds, Maine, 1926
Photograph
Copy of photo of students at the Lyons Hill School in Edmunds, Maine with their teacher, Edith (McRae) Hobart in 1926. A lunch pail and rusted tin can are still nestled among the blocks of the old foundation.
The Lyons Hill School, also known as the Mill District school. was one of six schoolhouses in Edmunds throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. In 1850 there were 46 pupils, at the annual expense of $63.80. In 1926 there were two teachers, Amy Dudley and Edith Hobart, receiving an average salary of $450 a year. On March 24, 1950, the school burned down, encouraging the construction of the new Edmunds Consolidated School which opened in 1952.
