Independent Registered Historian

Returning this week to the Daniels District #5 which is located approximately three miles from the downtown of Preston on what is now County Route 10 to Pharsalia, about where the right hand turn to the County Landfill Road is. This photo with this article gives the readers a view when it was still a school. This school house now has been turned to a private residence, greatly changed, but thankful that at least it has not been torn down, used for storage, etc.

Again, gratitude is given to Peter Mason, Preston Historian for his diligent research of the Town Board Meeting Minutes, which Preston is most fortunate to have. This information which he forwarded to this writer is quoted as he transcribed it from the original writings.

“Preston, May 31, 1813 – John Noyes, Joseph Truman and Sylvanus Moor, School Committee overseers documented: District Number five beginning at the northwest corner of the fourteenth Township, thence to the southwest corner of David Sh------- [unreadable]; thence east to the west line of lot number nineteen; thence east to the Richard road; thence south to the southwest corner of William Childs on toward; thence east to John Noyes land being the west line of number three; thence north to the northwest corner of ------------ Child land; thence west to the west line of the squires farm; thence north to the north line of the Town of Preston; thence west to the first mentioned bound.”