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Photographer: Anton Schwarzmueller
Taken: May 8, 2015
Caption: Sweet Home Common School No.15 Display
Additional Description: Inside the main museum building. The information/map panel reads:
Sweet Home School. This schoolhouse was built in 1847 on the east side of Sweet Home Road just south of Tonawanda Creek. It was donated to the Museum in the late 1970s by the Sweet Home School District. This building was moved directly to the Museum's current site.

Although in poor condition (as most buildings were when they first arrived) saving it was a priority for the Museum.

It is one of the earliest one-room schoolhouses in Erie County and today looks much as it did in 1848.
Submitted: May 19, 2015, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p308545
File Size: 3.679 Megabytes

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