Foster Schoolhouses

Located on Old Plainfield Pike, this schoolhouse had been abandoned as of 1964.

Located on north side of Plainfield Pike near the intersection of Howard Hill Road.

This photo of the foundation was taken in 1975.

Located at the corner of Plain Woods and Kennedy Roads, as of 1964 it had been converted into a dwelling.

Picture taken in 1978.

Located on Howard Hill Road, this schoolhouse was gone as of 1964.

Located at the corner of Gold Mine and Harrington Roads, this schoolhouse was gone as of 1964.

The exterior picture was taken on taken July 27, 1936 with Wheaton Harrington in the foreground.  The interior picture is not dated.

Jenks Schoolhouse (1647) (#373): Located on Foster Center Road near the intersection of Route 102.  This small, one room schoolhouse, three bays wide and two bays deep, was used until school consolidation took place in 1952.  A 1-story addition was built at a right angle to the schoolhouse when it was converted into a residence in the 1970’s.

Built before 1824 and remodeled several times since then in the 1950s through the 1970s for use as the Foster Center Library.

Located on South Killingly Road between Balcom and Johnson Roads.  The schoolhouse appears on an 1862 map of the Town, however district #9 seems to have ceased to exist and does not appear on the 1870 map of school districts.  The school house was gone as of 1964.

Located on South Killingly Road, the schoolhouse was abandoned as of 1964.  Photos in the center and on the bottom were taken in 1971.

This schoolhouse was located on Central Pike, just west of Ram Tail Road, schoolhouse was abandoned as of 1964.  Photo is undated.

Located on Central Pike, west of Foster Center Road, the schoolhouse was gone as of 1964.

Located on Route 6 east of Boswell, the schoolhouse was gone as of 1964.

Hopkins Mills Schoolhouse (Hopkins Mills) (c. 1820) (#66): Located on Old Danielson Pike, west of the Ponagansett river. This one story schoolhouse with open belfry astride its gable roof has two widely separated entrances one now a window with a double-hung window between them on its north-facing gable front.  A semi-circular fan-shaped window in the gable peak and a one story ell at right angles at the rear were added when the schoolhouse was closed 1952 and remodeled for use as a residence.  The schoolhouse occupies a commanding hillside site above the road reached by a straight steep flight of stone steps it was built on or near the site of an earlier c. 1797 school.

Located on East Killingly Road.  Now converted into a house.

Located on Maple Rock Road just off of Route 101.  The schoolhouse had burnt down as of 1964.

Located on Winsor Road at the approximate location of the NIKE site, just off of Route 101, the school house was gone as of 1964.

Mount Hygeia Schoolhouse (c. 1840) (ff68): This typical one story, one room schoolhouse, with paired entrances in the south gable end, is the only un-remodelled schoolhouse in Foster and one of seven schoolhouses surviving in any form, In the last half of the 19th century Foster had eighteen school districts, By the time of school consolidation in 1952, however, only seven schoolhouses remained in use; Mount Hygeia was one of them.  A 1755 deed for a schoolhouse lot in the Mount Hygeia area is the earliest known reference to any school or school building in Foster.

Photos taken in 2006.

Located at the intersection of Shippee School House Road and East Killingly Road, the schoolhouse was gone as of 1964.