Redstone School Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School . 2022-11-22 . www.digitalcommonwealth.org . en.
  2. Book: Crane, Ellery Bicknell . 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 . 1907 . 377.
  3. Book: Bryan, F.R. . Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford . Wayne State University Press . 2002 . 978-0-8143-3684-7 . 381 . 2019-08-17.
  4. Book: Bryan, Ford R. . Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford . Wayne State University Press . 2002 . 381.