Building date: c. 1840, demolished c. 1978.
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Town of Barre and Orleans County Maps
Barre School District No. 15, Crane and Trench Roads. Walls had been plastered and door enclosed. Richard Palmer blog.
Editor's Note: At the northwest corner of the Crane and Trench Roads intersection, the two 1860 Maps below show School House No. 24. School House No. 15 is shown to be located near the intersection of the current Drake Island Road and on the north side of Gillette Road. Since the original road location of what is now Drake Island Road has changed since 1860, School House No. 15 may have been just to the west of the current intersection. A circa 1910 school district map confirms that School House No. 15 was at the northwest corner of the Crane and Trench Roads intersection. This and the following suggest that school numbers could have changed in the Town of Barre prior to and/or when the Town of Albion was created from the northern part of the Town of Barre in 1875.
Judge Thomas, in his excellent history of. Orleans county, furnishes the following interesting facts of the early schools of the several towns of the county : Albion and Barre - Albion formed a part of Barre in the time of early schools. Dr. Gushing writes that the first school within the present limits of the town of Barre was taught by Sally, daughter of John Lee, in a log house at Lee's Settlement in 1818 and 1819. Miss Lee married Andrew Stevens, and died at Towanda in 1828. The destruction of the town records in 1866 prevents other knowledge of the formation of districts.Luther Porter, of Porter's Corners, says : "There was no school in my neighborhood for several years after 1820. The first school house there was erected at Sheldon's Corners. The district was afterwards divided and a log school house built about a mile north of Ferguson's Corners. Again the district was divided, and in 1871 stood as district No. 12, with a good school house. The town of Albion now has ten good school houses and Barre thirteen". Landmarks of Orleans County - Signor, 1894, P. 212, provided by Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian.
School District 15 Map 1910.jpgSchool District Maps, Orleans County, printed and distributed by The Citizens Bank, Albion, N. Y. Map excerpt provided by Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian.
"Chapter III Cobblestone Buildings", by Delia Robinson, "Architecture Destroyed in Orleans County, New York", by C. W. Lattin, Orleans County Historian, November 1984. Published by the Cobblestone Society.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 15, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
 Orleans Maps/Map Excerpt 1860 Niagara_Orleans Ctys 160201_3N5A0429.jpg ¹ |  Orleans Maps/1860 Niagara Orleans CountiesA Bar-10 Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |
 District School 15, Barre.jpg ³ Old District No. 15, Crane Road, while still in use. |  District School 15, Crane Road, Barre.jpg 4 May, 1972. |
² 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Bar-10 Excerpt Map courtesy Library of Congress.
³ Image courtesy Cary Lattin.
4 Image courtesy Cobblestone Society collection.
