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These pieces of writing have been written by children involved in migrant education programs. Some are represented as a positive perspective toward the instruction they are receiving while others are completely contradictory. School is complicated…

The Clark Rice Photography Annotation states "Snow at the new High School taken by Clark, probably 1954-55." Two children play on the large snow mound against the school building.

Number 5 on the Burleigh map, records for this school prior to 1892 are missing due to a major fire on Main Street that year. The structure shown by Burleigh received a west wing in 1896 and a north wing in 1904. In 1914, a new brick structure…

Avon Free Library was used to house students after the school fire in 1961. Four kindergarten classes were taught there for two years.

Until 1907, high school students in Avon attended classes in a building constructed in 1841. It was built as the Avon Academy for young women, then purchased by the village in 1867 as the Avon Union Free School, and finally renamed the Avon High…

Oral History, as told by prior principal of Avon School District, Irene Coleman. Coleman talks about the school fire of 1961, the development of Avon schools, and the different traditions and sense of community that evolved from the school. Her own…

In this detail from an 1872 map, we can see that the processing of meats took place literally next door to a school