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Photographer: Charles T. Harrell
Taken: June 27, 2011
Caption:
Colton School | Additional Description: 1850-The Red Brick School-1972
Known as the Colton School
1849 land grant by Chauncey Colton-three directors-elected-school constructed 1850-first session 1850-walls 12” thick-cedar shingles-heated by pot bellied stove-outside dimensions 22’x26’- moved 1 ½ miles from John Nelson Farm to it present location in 1971. Restored 1972. Owned by City of Princeton.
Submitted: July 8, 2011, by Charles T. Harrell of Woodford, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p161091
File Size: 0.087 Megabytes
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