Sand Hill School
As the number of glass factory workers grew, the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company built housing for them as well as a company store and a school, which was built close to the factory complex on Jarves Street in 1828. As the glass company grew larger and more successful, the schoolhouse was moved to alleviate congestion around the factory. Factory Street (now called Dewey Avenue) was extended eastward to an area known as Sand Hill and a new, larger school was built in 1851.
Known as the Jarvesville School or the Sand Hill School, there was a dividing wall down the middle and the building had two entrance doors (separate gender entrances were the custom at the time). The two classrooms in the school served the lower grades in that section of town. For a number of years before the construction of the Henry T. Wing School in 1926-7, the Sand Hill School contained the 7th and 8th grades for the entire town.
Beginning in 1931 (after the school closed), the building served as a meeting hall for American Legion Post #188. In 1950, it was re-named the Clark-Haddad Memorial Building for the first two Sandwich residents who died during World War I -- Alden Clark and Michael Haddad. From the early 60s through the 80s , the building was heavily used by many groups and as a gathering place for children and seniors. The building was last used as office space by the Sandwich Public Schools until 2007. Today it stands vacant.
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Known as the Jarvesville School or the Sand Hill School, there was a dividing wall down the middle and the building had two entrance doors (separate gender entrances were the custom at the time). The two classrooms in the school served the lower grades in that section of town. For a number of years before the construction of the Henry T. Wing School in 1926-7, the Sand Hill School contained the 7th and 8th grades for the entire town.
Beginning in 1931 (after the school closed), the building served as a meeting hall for American Legion Post #188. In 1950, it was re-named the Clark-Haddad Memorial Building for the first two Sandwich residents who died during World War I -- Alden Clark and Michael Haddad. From the early 60s through the 80s , the building was heavily used by many groups and as a gathering place for children and seniors. The building was last used as office space by the Sandwich Public Schools until 2007. Today it stands vacant.
To log this geocache on opencaching.us, the password is Haddad.