Building date: 1846
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Gray limestone and red limestone
Mortar application and content: Vertical very heavy, bold
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°05'25.53"N 77°09'26.17"W. Current owner of record, Jacobs as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
¹ Editor's Note: A property address number is not assigned for this location since the building is not occupied. The Wayne Historians Organization suggests the street address would be 4701 North Creek Rd.; however, this is not official and the property is does not have any address markings. The structure sits on 0.15 acres on the NE corner of Lyons & North Creek Rds. assigned as vacant with improvements.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
District 7 school house at the intersection of North Creek and Lyons roads was built in 1846. It is about a mile north of Port Gibson. Later it was used as a barn. A large door cut in in one end. It also was used to store farm implements. It is constructed of lake washed red sandstone cobbles. The lintels and quoins are quarried limestone. Richard Palmer blog.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the ninth paragraph on page 26.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Jacob O'Meal Jr. House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 227 and 228. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific references to this structure on page 8.
The Cobblestone Store. From Cobblestone Museum archives. Editor's Note: See Gerda Petrich's photograph GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-10 1-1 P.jpg below of The Cobblestone Store. Since the property is under new ownership, the business likely no longer exists. See John Kucko Facebook posting below.
One Room Schoolhouses, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
"Winter at the Schoolhouse [Refer to John Kucko Digital photographs below]: Captured this the other day at the 1846 District 7 Cobblestone Schoolhouse in East Palmyra, NY. Most of the structure was made of red sandstone cobbles from Lake Ontario, the foundation was made of fieldstone. According to the Wayne County Historian's Office, the building was also used to store farm equipment, even a brand new fire truck in the 1940's. This is one of approximately 170 cobblestone structures in Wayne County. The historic building is now owned by Brad Jacobs who, fittingly, owns a masonry business - he has taken wonderful care of this treasure and tells me he bought it to make sure nothing would happen to it. Terrific place!" John Kucko Digital, Facebook posting 2/6/2021 7:00 AM.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory District 7 Cobblestone Schoolhouse
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, District School #7 House
- Page 180
 Pal-10 School Dist 7 1.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins 8/29/1930 |  GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-10 1-1 P.jpg ² 11/1/1971 |  Pal_10_1.jpg |  Pal_10_2.jpg |
 Pal_10_3.jpg |  Pal-10 4701 North Creek Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Pal-10 4701 North Creek Rd 2.jpg ³ |  District 7 1.jpg 4 |
 District 3.jpg 4 |  147542256_2836682906602247_841796826411442792_o.jpg 5 February 2021 |  146905110_2836682923268912_8901596000626227323_o.jpg 5 February 2021 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
5 Photography and descriptive text courtesy John Kucko Digital
