SCHOOLS

In the middle forties, Darwin Cushman and his wife (a sister of the pioneer Lorenzo Parrnenter) taught school and kept an accommoda­ tion postoffiee in a cabin near the southwest township Hue. School was held in the cabin and in a log house near the river bank at Andalusia, and in other cabins east and west.The early settlers quickly realized they needed to build a schoolhouse for their children. It was called Greenbush. Another school was named Rockport, and there was competition between the two

. Of these a white-haired attendant of the long ago declares: ''They were so little that the teacher could stand in the middle of the room, and almost whack us all over the head with the ruler." There are three school districts now, two white buildings, surmounted with cupola and bell, cosily fur­ nished, have supplanted the primitive structures. The village district has a graded school, which is a commodious building, beautifully located in a magnificent grove of old oaks, such as can­ not be found very frequently now

The following students attended Greenbush:

John Kenworthy
Two Garnett boys
John Richards
William Richards
Three Walton boys
Jabez Cobeldick
E. E. Parmenter
Andrew Simmons
Theodore Simmons
several Roberts boys
Henry Ballard
Eli Jones
Sarah Buffum

In 1868 the school became the Baptist Church.

Submitted by Diana Alm

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