Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-16

District No. 5.

/ Joseph Whipplr James Knapn
/ 9tephtl bthneit. Bpuia Gould.
/ iona Church, John Alexander
| Joseph Chamberlain Elliab prouty
RCh'd Pro- ty. Israel Yield
uhlIn3' Whppe; lothian Spaulding.
Beni Buttertirld. lr, VIM McCunp ir.
MW Mct'nne, Isaac Kendall
Doct'r Dickerman, sawyer Wright
~. Ltason Ebenezer Knapp.
/ Taylor Brooks, EbenpZar Chut,b
onNtr look. Joseph touk
/ iona Herrirk. sir Nichols
District No. 8.
Barnet Field, Jonathan Hobbs.
isiac Bump, Ebpnpzer HaWrs
heulSu bump, Daniel MhibUl-
Splah Wells, Iona Snltsh,,r,
Nathan Could Ialslz DAVIS
Among those in district No 3 is To he
noticed ''Doct" John Munro. not often men
TONED among the early physicians lie
was probably the first IN that part Of the
town
The schOOlhOuse in district No. was
probably built where tue schonlhouse in
that district now is that in No , at the
northwest corner Of what is the common
~ Brattleboro village that in No 3, per.
maps where this one stood and that in No
where that in district No Il now stands
Col John Sergeant was committee in No :
MIR. Asa Putnam in No. > MIR. William
Harris in No. 3 Capt. Howe in No. ( ;
Mr.. Noah Bennett in No. ) and Mr.. Joua-
than Salisbury in No. g, aud all we're chosen
by the town and not 10y the respective dis
tricts
No village was situated where West Brat
tlebOrO is now. and no road led from there
~ where Brattleboro village is till after
l1SI. At that time Simpson Elias lived
where the West Brattleboro Academy
stood Lieut.. Root east Of the brook and
Josiah Aues had house and shop near
Col. Smiths mill In l1S1 the road
through where West Brattleboru is was
built, aud the meeting house was located
on the north side Of it nearly opposite to
where the Congregational meeting house
now is aud east of where Capt Houghton
then lived. The village of West Brattleboro
then began tu grow up abnut there. Till
then the most of village IN the town was
on aud about the hill north Of Ceutreville.
One Of the centres of business was around
where the old schoolhouse stood In that
year the town took up the subject of
schools again in Il general way. The dis
trl"ts we're called classes On April %. at
AN adjourned meeting it
Voted 10 divide the southwest school class il,
the middle by north and south linz from the
crulrr line uf this town to the north line VI Gull
ford
: Voted that Mr. Phillip Wood b- the trtist4,. nf
the school class In the southwest part II the town
j. Voted that Mr. John steward bt trustee Tor
in this town
Voted To divide the school class in the south
east part Of the town by north aud south line
running between Peter CoVrl's farm aud Elnathap
Aliens farm. said lin, runs north and south
tron ilr north rnd Of said class To- GuilfDrd north
line
, Made choice. Of MIR Josiah Arms trustee for
the east part Of said class and Mr Elisha Pierce.
for the west part
6 Voted to divide the schnuI class IN which thu.
,Choollipusr j. by Mr. Noah Btuur'ts a. follows:
That all the inhabitants west Of Mr. Brnokss
Capt Cooks and Joseph ChHmbrrlain's b-long TO
the west part and made choice. ~ Francis prouty
trustee Of said west part
:. Voted that John Carpenter for the future be-.
long To the school class of which John Steward is
trustee
:. Voted that Mr. Stephen q Grr-nleaf ir for the
fmtnrr belong to the schoo class of which Mr
william Harris IL trustee.
In the next year the classes we're called
districts again. On April 10 the town
Voted To divide the most a-sterly district tx.
'r'pt unr IN the south part OF the town
Voted {" divide said district nv a line drawn ON
the north side Of Mr StuddardS land from east 10
west through said district: that the north sid, l.
ANNEXED {" the district IN ia centre of the south
Chos+ Jabel wood trustee II the most westerly
district excerpt "ne ia the southwest part of the
town.
Voted tu annex the. farms Of Daniel steward
Abner Scovel, Joseph Wells aud Samuel Garns..y
~ the southwest district Ia the district next east
That SaH mel Narrin-r he trustee for said district
by these votes the principal districts came
to he IN territory similar to what they now
are, except that the district in which the
old brick schoolhouse stood included nearly
what Is now districts No ) and :. and was
the centre district in the south part of the
town. In November l1S1 the town Voted
that the centre school district in the south
half Of the town he divided by a line run
ming parallel with the west line of Mr.
William HarrisS lot on which he now lives.
said line running from north to south e."
This divided that district somewhat as those
two districts are now divided, leaving that
where the old schoolhouse stood much as it
is now. When the old schoolhnuse was
taken down it was supposed to be and prob
ably had long been the oldest schoolhouse
in town. When it was built is not known
to the writer hereof, but brick were made in
that vicinity as early as ia, and this
schoolhonse may have been built among the
very first.