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    This old school is really the third for this quiet farming hamlet. The first schoolhouse was built in 1814. The second school, now a private residence was built in 1874 and used up until
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    The first school was built in 1817 after residents of Bald Hills asked to be a school district. The second school was erected in 1850 to replace the first one. The Farmingville Congregational
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    This old school was built in 1872 to replace the original one in the hollow on Middle Country Road, opposite the New York State Game Farm. One-half acre of land was donated by William Sidney
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    St. Paul’s School for boys was built in 1879, along with the Cathedral of the Incarnation and St. Mary’s School for girls, by Cornelia Stewart, the widow of multi-millionaire Alexander Turney
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    The Swan River Schoolhouse in East Patchogue was built in 1858 on land purchased from Stephen S. Roe. The purchase price for the land was $25 and the deed conveyed that the land only be
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