Morris, New York

This postcard has a 1909 postmark. You can read the back by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.

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Back of the card has these notes:

Erected 1932; Cost $330,000.
Accomodates 500 students;
Front pillars are Indiana Limestone; Entire building is
of fireproof construction,

Principal, Peter A. Etienne

An undated unused postcard showing the Morris High School. It was built in 1894 and replaced in 1932 with the Lewis Rutherfurd Morris Central School.

The newspaper page attached below reports that Frank Churchill hauled the new heating apparatus to the school from Mt. Upton. It weighed 9,000 lbs.

Looking up North Broad from Main St. If you click on the photo you can see some boys with sleds in front of the W. H. Gardner Inn.

The view above is from the corner of S. Broad and Hargrave Streets

Have a look at the two pages of The Morris Chronicle linked below. In the May article details of the dedication coming up on May 30th, 1872 are given. The June page recounts the events of the day. Town Historian Gertrude Sanderson wrote about the monument also.