-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:54 PM Subject: [NYSUF] Schools in Southampton, 1870s >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/737.1 > >Message Board Post: > >On 7/10/03 (7:14:50 AM MDT), in a posting to the Suffolk County Board that was 'gatewayed' to [email protected], Peggy Dolan ([email protected]) asked, > >"Can anyone provide information about what schools existed in Southampton in the 1870s, and whether any records now exist? From what I find on the web, the law requiring compulsory education for children 6 to 16 was passed in NY in 1874." > > > >For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Historian for the Town of Southampton: > >Town Historian >Town of Southampton Town >Southampton Town Hall >116 Hampton Road >Southampton, NY 11968 > >Tel: 631-283-6000 >Fax: 631/???-???? Also, the Brooklyn Genealogy website has a series of maps which show all the school districts in the Town of Southampton in 1873. See <http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Southamp.1.html> <http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Southamp.2.html> <http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Southamp.3.html> and <http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Southamp.partof.html> Ned Smith