Mining for Souls
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Schools page 2
Standish School
Public School at Standish, N.Y.
In 1880, the town of Standish boasted a modern
blast furnace, a forge and a two-story store. The upper floor was used as
the Methodist Church. With the coming of the railroad, a new store
was erected in 1886, and the old two-story red frame building became the
school. There were three rooms on the first floor housing grades one
through six, and the upper floor was
used as a kindergarten and for grades seven and eight. Standish had two
branch schools: Wolf Pond and South Inlet. The district employed five teachers
and a principal, and was part of the Saranac School District. For a period
of six years, a parochial school was held in the school hall, with nuns as
instructors. In 1928, students in the High School Department were brought
to Lyon Mountain by bus. The first driver was Arthur LaDuke, who later
became a custodial-bus driver and gave many years of service to the school.
Denton Stillwell was the last principal to be employed in Standish and is
remembered as a talented poet as well as a capable administrator. It
was about 1931-32 that the Standish school was closed, and all students were
transferred to Lyon Mountain. In later years, the school was torn down and
a new fire station was built on the lot. So ended a half century of country-schooling
in the Standish-Wolf Pond area.
Denton Stillwell-last Principal at Standish School
CHAZY LAKE SCHOOL
Chazy Lake School - 1975 Summer Home of Earl Lamare.
In 1880, there was a settlement in Chazy Lake known
as the Junction. Located near the Sand Pit and opposite the turn-off to the
present Loewenburg road, this settlement consisted of thirty dwellings, among
which was a log building that was the first school in Chazy Lake. It was in
1894 that Xavier King, father of Sullivan King, gave a piece of land to the
school district for the erection of a new school. A contract for three hundred
dollars was given out for the construction of the building. The school was
privileged to have had many fine instructors. Among them was Mrs. Alice
(Gregory) Williamson who taught here for a few years and in area schools for
forty years. This school remained open until 1960, when the district
contracted to send its students to the Lyon Mountain School. The last
teacher to have been employed was Delia King who devoted a quarter of a century
in the Chazy Lake District. This district is now part of the Northern Adirondack
Central School System.
Mrs. Delia King closing door of Chazy Lake School for last time.
continued on Schools 3....
Sources:
Adirondack Museum photos, Blue Mountain Lake, NY;
History of Clinton County, New York;
Go to Page 1 of The History of Lyon
Mountain.
Go to Page 3 of The History of Lyon
Mountain.
Go to Mining History for The History
of Mining in the North Country.
Go to Page 5 of The History of Lyon
Mountain.(for article on Lyon Mt. and Mineville)
Go to Page 40 of Mining for Souls.
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Souls.
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page)
Rod Bigelow
Box 13 Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
rodbigelow@netzero.net 
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