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| History: The Flanders School
was built around 1853 and the present building was rebuilt about 1886
after a fire. It was a one room school house with a coal burning stove.
The dimensions of the original one room block are 20 x 37 feet which is
a typical 19th century school house size. The open rectangular school
yard in the back and the old pipe and post fence still exist. Children
of all ages were educated here.
Students were from Flanders and Red Creek. After 1908 it was designated as District #4 School, Southampton. Around 1925 a shed roof addition was put onto the back of the building. The Flanders School had its last day of classes on June 19,1959. There were 30 first and second grade students at that time. After the school closed, the building was renovated into a church and later into a house. The present owner has restored the main features of the old school house and uses the building as a private residence. |