Redstone School
| Redstone School | |
|---|---|
 The building in 2007 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°21′31″N 71°28′16″W / 42.358650°N 71.471215°W |
| Completed | 1798 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 1 |
The Redstone School is a one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school to which Mary Sawyer took her lamb in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".[2][3]
At the time of Sawyer's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. Since before the American Civil War, the building had served as a barn for a local Baptist Church parsonage. In early 1926,[4] the property was purchased by Henry Ford[5] and relocated around 20 miles (32 km) to the east, to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today.[2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.[6]
On January 17, 1927 the building reopened as a school,[4] operating for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four.[6] It closed permanently in 1951.[2][6]
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.
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Interior
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References
[edit]- ^ "U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ a b c Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, August 3, 2019, retrieved November 22, 2022
- ^ Crane, Ellery Bicknell (1907). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 377.
- ^ a b "School Made Famous by Mary and her Lamb Reopened Today". New Britain Herald. New Britain, Connecticut. January 7, 1927. p. 11. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
- ^ Bryan, F.R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-8143-3684-7. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ a b c Bryan, Ford R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381.