At 08:02 AM 09/30/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:10:13 EDT >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [Tri-Counties] One Room Schoolhouse in East Smithfield >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Hi Everyone, > I have a letter from a lady wanting info about a one-room schoolhouse >between Smithfield and Ulster, and who the teacher might have been in the >late 1920's. I have come up with two possibilities. I'm going to give you >the info that I have found, and if anyone can add to my information please >let me know because I am going to write to this lady in the next couple of >days. > There was one on the corner of Bluebird Road and Ulster Road, but I > have >been unable to find out the name of this school. There is a good >possibility that the teacher at this school was a Miss Thomas (source: >Barbara Decker). The other school that I came up with was on the corner of >the Saco Road and the Ulster Road. It was called Riggs School, and the >teacher at this school was a Miss Florence Eiffert during the late 1920's >(source Eunice Eiffert Nichols, sister of Florence). > I would appreciate any further information you may have. Thanks > Pat Raymond Pat, I do not know the layout of Smithfield at all. However, I know that my grandparents and my grandmother's siblings lived in Smithfield and attended a one room schoolhouse. This schoolhouse was Sunny Side. A school souvenir booklet for Sunny Side from 1906 appears on the Tri-County web-site. The booklet states that the school is in East Smithfield. I recently looked at the 1930 Census which listed my grandmother's brothers, Tom and Bill Donovan, who owned the family farm in 1930. At the bottom of the page it said "Ulster Road." My understanding is that the property where Sunny Side was located was eventually bought by them and incorporated into their farm. Unfortunately, I do not know much more about Sunny Side than this. Hope this helps. Does anybody else have information about Sunny Side? - Tom Weingart