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Filers Corners Schoolhouse

Sometimes schoolhouses are moved, even if they are made of stone. Follow the links below to learn more.

https://www.harvestofhistory.org/village/filers-corners-schoolhouse/

Some terms the teacher, namely, Will S. Hopkins, would have a full school, say 41 students.

The first teacher at the school and builder of the stone schoolhouse was Thomas Alvah Filer.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19381855/fil

One of the teachers at the Filers Corners Schoolhouse was Florence M. Matteson.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92784610/florence-m-matteson

Others include the following:

1884 - 1885, John J. Dixson died tragically on August 28, 1888 when a cannon exploded at a flag pole raising event in Dimmock Hollow.

Harvey Harrison taught the winter of 1887. See PDF for 1887 below.

1889, Miss Minnie Wilcox closed the summer term with a picnic.

1890, Miss Stella Eldred closed a term in February.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93605315/stella-wallace

1890, Miss Hattie Lull was the teacher. As a child she had been a student at the school.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77081025/hattie-winifred-lull

1895, Susie Thomas, In 1905 Susie married Vernon E. Card of Pittsfield, they had two daughters, Alice and Hilda. The influenza pandemic got him in 1920. She married again, Frank Chapman of Fly Creek.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105781723/susan-card-chapman
http://commonplace.online/article/how-bicycles-liberated-women-in-victor...

1892-1893 William Lull.
Possibly he was this William Lull -- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182203060/william-mckenzie-lull

1915 Laura Martha Aplin Harris, her students collected the most apple worm egg masses -- over 36,000 in 1915
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202549974/laura-martha-harris

1918 saw Florence Mary (Gifford) Littlewood teaching, but needing a break due to the influenza epidemic which she survived.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204601377/florence-mary-littlewood


Filer Corners School was the District Number 9 School. It was in the southeast corner of the district.

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PDF icon 1945-09-29-Otsego-Farmer-ancient-schoolhouse-no-highlights (1).pdf836.82 KB
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PDF icon 1888 Sept 5 With an account of the Dimock Hollow Tragedy that killed three young men at a flag pole raising.833.01 KB
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PDF icon 1911-12-02-The-Morris-Chronicle-Lower-Dimock-Hollow-School-corner-of-Pittsley-and-Hoag-Rd.pdf562.75 KB
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