1869 School Districts in Avon
Map of Avon, 1869. Reprint by Avon Historical Society, 1994. This multi-colored map shows the seven school districts in Avon. Copies are for sale at the Avon History Museum and on the Avon Historical Society website in the gift shop page.
Cider Brook School
School District 1. Cider Brook School, 1915.
Operating since at least 1747, this was the only school in the Northington Society of Farmington until 1767. In 1804, forty-one children attended this school. This building in the photo was the third schoolhouse there, built in 1871. It closed in 1918 with attendance of about ten students. It reopened when parents objected, and closed permanently in 1920.
Kelley Lanahan Collection
Maple Grove Academy
12 West Main Street. (possibly c. 1860-1863)
Clues as to the dates and history of this school: Principal Rev. Henry Clark. (Hartford Courant, Oct 8, 1861. "His school is prosperous and will continue, whatever be his decision in regard to the calls [to be a minister in a church] extended to him." Address of 12 West Main Street from a postcard in the collection of the Avon Free Public Library History Room. He was born about 1807 and died (c. early November) 1894, age 87. Graduated Yale 1835 [Courant, No. 9, 1894, p. 8; his obituary]. The Yale Personals in the College Courant (Dec. 26, 1868) said he was living in Avon at that time.
Rev. Clark was admitted to the Avon Cong. Church in 1860 from the Hartford Central Association. He was dismissed from the Avon Cong. Church in June 1863 to the congregational church in Riverhead, Long Island.
He was readmitted to membership in the Avon Congregation Church from Sayville, Long Island, in 1870, which means he was in Avon 1860-1863, and in 1870+.
Avon Academy
(Possibly 1855-1863; 1868-1895)
It was located on the northeast corner of Country Club Road and West Avon Road. Matthew C. Woodford was a teacher there. Students included Carrie Wilcox. When Robert Wilcox attended the school, Mr. Woodford was still teaching there. Robert wrote that Mr. Woodford was "a scholar, a farmer, and a very gifted man."
Noted in Fran MacKie, Avon Story, p. 154.
From ancestry.com: Matthw Corydon Woodford (1837-1914). Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Avon. He was a member of the West Avon Congregational Church.
Admitted 1855
Dismissed 1863 to Harwinton
Admitted again to West Avon Cong. Church 1868 from Harwinton.
1879 Delegate to Senate Convention from Avon
1895 Dismissed from WACC to Cong. Church Unionville.
So he was in Avon 1855-1863; 1868-1895
Avon Old Farms School
Avon Old Farms School, 1927
Avon Old Farms School Students Do Farm Chores
Students at Avon Old Farms School spent two weeks a year doing farm chores at Hill-Stead, the Farmington estate of the school's founder, Theodate Pope Riddle. Avon Old Farms School Collection, courtesy of Carol Ketcham
History of the school is available at: https://www.avonoldfarms.com/history
Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy
Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy, 1967
Reggio Magnet School of the Arts (CREC), 2014
Reggio Magnet School of the Arts (CREC), 2014
The Principal’s Message about the school is available at: https://rmsa.crecschools.org
Ana Grace Academy of the Arts
Pre-K to 5th grade – located at Security Drive, Avon
Part of the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC), Ana Grace Academy School in Bloomfield, CT
