Redstone School

The Redstone School is an historic one-room school located in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school which Mary Tyler (née Sawyer) took her lamb to in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".[2][3]

Redstone School
The building in 2007
General information
LocationSudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates42.358650°N 71.471215°W / 42.358650; -71.471215
Completed1798 (1798)
Technical details
Floor count1

At the time of Tyler's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford[4] and relocated to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today.[2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.[5]

After closing in 1927, prior to its move, the school reopened for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four.[5] It closed permanently in 1951.[2][5]

The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.

  • Rear
    Rear
  • Interior
    Interior

References
  1. "U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  2. Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, 2019-08-03, retrieved 2022-11-22
  3. Crane, Ellery Bicknell (1907). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 377.
  4. Bryan, F.R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-8143-3684-7. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  5. Bryan, Ford R. (2002). Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Wayne State University Press. p. 381.
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