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One-Room Schoolhouse Comes to Life Sept. 8 in Bath

Tour, ice cream social are part of the event

A group of volunteers will bring history to life Sept. 8 when Stony Hill Schoolhouse hosts a public tour.

The schoolhouse has been re-created as it was in 1900, when it offered a traditional education to the youngsters in Bath.    

School teachers, dressed in apparel reflecting the times, will tell the story of the local one-room school. 

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The tour starts at noon. The school is at 49 Hametown Rd., near the Medina Road intersection. 

Maureen McGinty will set the tone as the overall schoolmistress. Carl Boltz will be Master Peter Boltz, Lee Darst will be Mistress Anna Heller Davis, Elaina Goodrich will be Mistress Ethel Andrew Griffin, Patti Graham will be Mistress Merle Parsons Parker, Hannah Krumheuer will be Mistress Sadie Mohler Shaw, Mary McNeil will be Mistress Alice Linder Dean, James Nelson will be Master Walter Kimpton, Nancy Terjesen will be Mistress Ester Margaret Warden Bair and Gerald Woodling will be Master John Woodling. 

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The group has designed a brochure about all nine one-room schoolhouses originally serving Bath Township, as well as one for this schoolhouse tour.  

Information was compiled by Libby Bauman, Lee Darst, David Darst, Elaina Goodrich, Cindy Parish, Jan Shutte-Reed,  and Nancy Terjesen.

The first record for Stony Hill School was in 1837 when a small parcel was deeded to a joint Bath-Copley Township districtIt replaced an earlier log schoolhouse.  

In 1861, a new building was purchased. By 1883, the building was in need of various repairs and the addition of two outhouses.  A one-acre lot was deeded for a new schoolhouse in 1892.  

The Stony Hill Schoolhouse is now a museum run by the Bath Township Historical Society.  

Following the tour, the annual Bath Township Historical Society ice cream social will take place.


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