With the beginning of the above series of articles, the requests were forwarded to each of the town historians to share any and all informational history and photos that they might have relevant to the district schools of their township. The response to this request has been extremely helpful, part of the townships have provided information, others have not and the three resources available here in the city (County Historian’s office, Guernsey Memorial Library, Smith’s History of Chenango County) have been scoured and this has been the basis for the articles, plus personal conversations with individuals for these “schools of the past” history.

The township of German, one of the smallest townships in the county is basically an agricultural township which has not changed over the years since it was formed. The research information that the former historian Gladys Huntly found is the fact that in 1865 there were nine school districts operating in the township with 231 pupils attending. Total combined budgets for that year were #2,003.68.