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/???-???? eMail: http://www.town.southampton.ny.us/contact.ihtml http://www.town.southampton.ny.us/index.ihtml I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Walter Greenspan