South Edmunds School, Hallowell District, Edmunds, ME
Photograph
South Edmunds School, also called the Hallowell District School. Lower Edmunds (formerly called the Shore Road), with Willard Phinney, teacher, c. 1915. The label on this photo incorrectly names the school as Little Falls School, which was located elsewhere. The teacher, students and schoolhouse were all on the South Edmunds Road.
In 1820, a school tax was assessed in Edmunds on the basis of population, which then numbered 154, at 40 cents a head, totaling $61.60. In 1823, Isaac Hobart recorded in his diary for the fall of that year, "A destructive fire in the woods back of the shore and settlement on Cobscook which burned some fences, some, potatoes, some grass. It burnt a log dwelling for William Jones, also a log schoolhouse, called the South School." In 1850 the South, or Hallowell, District School recorded 42 pupils at an annual cost of $58.23. By 1936, it was one of only three of a total of six district schools left in Edmunds.
circa 1917
