. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . dings of the board. The school property that came under control of the board of educa-tion by virtue of the act of 1861 may be briefly described in this con-nection; and incidentally many interesting facts of history may bementioned. 234 BINGHAMTON, ITS SETTLEMENT, School No. I, corner of Oak and North streets.—This is the propertymentioned in a preceding paragraph as having been conveyed to thetrustees of district No. 13 by Mr. Collier in 1834. A small schoolhouse was standing on the lot in 1861
. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . dings of the board. The school property that came under control of the board of educa-tion by virtue of the act of 1861 may be briefly described in this con-nection; and incidentally many interesting facts of history may bementioned. 234 BINGHAMTON, ITS SETTLEMENT, School No. I, corner of Oak and North streets.—This is the propertymentioned in a preceding paragraph as having been conveyed to thetrustees of district No. 13 by Mr. Collier in 1834. A small schoolhouse was standing on the lot in 1861. Subsequent material additionswere made to the building in 1867, at a cost of $3,000, and again1886 (a three-story brick addition), at a cost of $10,133. School Nos. 2 and j, corner of Washington and Hawley streets.—The date of erection of the one-story brick building on the lot given byGeneral Whitney to the trustees of school district No. 3 in 1813, is notnow known. In arranging the numbers in 1861 this school was desig-nated as Nos. 2 and 3, from the fact that the building was the only. Oak Street School. school house in wards two and three. Later on the 3 was discon-tinued and was given to the Robinson Street school. In 1879 the oldbuilding on the Washington street lot was removed, and in its placewas erected the present large three-story structure, at a cost of $13, 1880 to 1889 the offices of the board of education and superin-tendent of schools were in the Washington street building, but in theyear last mentioned were removed to the municipal building on Collierstreet. The city school library is also kept in school house No. 3. School No. ./, corner of Pine and Fayette streets.—The first schoolhouse in this district (No. 3, of the town of Chenango,) stood on Pine GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. SSH Street, about three lots west of the corner of Fayette. On December 4, 1851, trustees Tracy R. Morgan, William E. Abbott and Samuel bought of Stephen Hoag the
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