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The Clapboard Hill School House

SWD-3094 Clapboard Hill schoolhouse with several students on the steps. Outhouse visible c

c. 1900 (GKS SWD-3094)

At a special meeting of the First School Society in the Town of Guilford on April 6, 1835, it was voted to locate a school house in the Clapboard Hill District.  The school house committee, on November 18, 1835, was “unanimously of opinion that the said school house be set on the land of Amos Bartlett.”  (Amos Bartlett owned the house at 111 Goose Lane, later on the Sachem Country House, and currently part of Yale New Haven Hospital. His land extended back to where the school house was placed.)

c. 1895 (GKS WAD-10)

c. 1895 Left to right: Ben Howarth, Edmund Dudley, Seth Barrett, Mabel Parmelee, Raymond Dudley, Sadie Parmelee, and Minnie Griswold (teacher) (GKS WAD-9)

May 1903. Floyd Griswold wearing tie (GKS P-1793)

This one-room schoolhouse served the residents of the Clapboard Hill District from 1836-1931. Children ages four to sixteen in the district were registered, but not all attended.  Many of those who did attend alternated between spring and winter terms. A single teacher taught academic basics to the several grade levels of children.

c. 1895 (GKS WAD-11)

CDH-344

courtesy of the Guilford Free Library collection

​The school house was generously donated to the Guilford Keeping Society in 2022 by Stephen Dudley and David Griswold.

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The school house is not currently open to the public, but please check back for updates.

Dec 2022 (courtesy of John Plant)

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