Building date: 1846 or 1847
Original use: Schoolhouse.
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Town of Marshall and Oneida County Maps.
District 3 cobblestone school house was located on Route 12, or Paris Hill Road in the town of Marshall, north of Waterville and was used until 1915. In a letter published in the Waterville Times, on Feb. 9, 1915 G.S. Mack of Silver Creek, N.Y., who spent his boyhood in the town of Marshall recalled: "When a boy about seven years of age, I earned my first money picking up stones to help built that great edifice, as it seemed to us then. Many who have made good and written their names in various high positions, commenced by carving them on the desks at the old cobblestone school."
In a later letter published in the Waterville Times on March 12, 1915, he said: "I was born at Madison in 1839 and at the tender age of three imported into the Cobblestone district, where my father bought and located on the farm just north of the school. The school building then being a small dilapidated wooden structure standing on the west side of the road diagonally across from where the Cobblestone was built.
"I commenced my school days in this old building, but the good people of the district seeing that their children deserved a comfortable and appropriate school decided to erect a ore substantial one.
"Halsey Barnes, then owner of the land, gave a lot on the east side of the road in exchange for the old school site on the west, and the work was commenced in the spring of 1846 or 7. I would not positively say which."
"My father gave the stone and, as I stated in a former letter, I earned my first money picking them up in the fields for sixpence a pile (a pile being about a wagon load). The work was completed that year in time for the winter term, and a proud lot of about 35 pupils, large and small, assembled for school with Shepard Daily at the helm."
"Many happy hours have been spent within it walls, as have also may regretful ones. Bright ideas have originated there, as have also many boyish pranks, but the old Cobblestone must give place to something more modern. Still it will ever live in the. Memory of the boys and girls of 70 years ago."
The Utica Sunday Tribune on May 10, 1914 reported:
What is known as the cobblestone school house in District No. 3, Town of Marshall, on the Paris Hill road has been condemned as unfit for further occupation. The trustees have purchased a new site on the line between the Roberts and Hubbard farms and will begin erection of the building at once. Evans & Welch have the contract for the work. The plans call for a one story building.
Sale of School Building Approved As Economic Move, Rome Sentinel, Wednesday, March 8, 1933.
Waterville - Closing and sale of the Cobblestone School, near Hubbard's Corners, on the New Hatford-Waterville highway, was approved Tuesday night at a meeting of the school district in the school house. The vote on closing the building was 12 for and four against, and that on selling the property, 12 for and five against. Pupils of the first six grades which the school accommodated will be sent by bus to Waterville Central School.
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¹ Image excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
³ Image courtesy Richard Palmer. Attribution not provided.
