Redstone School | |
Location: | Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Coordinates: | 42.3587°N -71.4712°W |
Floor Count: | 1 |
The Redstone School is an historic one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school which Mary Sawyer took her lamb to in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".[2]
At the time of Tyler's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford[3] and relocated to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today. Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.[4]
After closing in 1927, prior to its move, the school reopened for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four. It closed permanently in 1951.
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.