Footnotes to Long Island History
Six Schoolhouses:
Dist. 12 Schools’ Pictures Displayed at
Coram Library
by
Thomas R. Bayles
Eat Middle Island one room schoolhouse. Photo from the
collection of Donald bayles.
Photographs of the early schools
in the Middles Island Central School District 12 have been assembled and
mounted for display and presented to the school library in Coram by
Thomas R. Bayles. This interesting collection of pictures of the six
schoolhouses may be inspected at the library whenever the library is
open.
The group consists of
the Ridge school, built in 1872; the Yaphank school, built in 1854; the
West Yaphank school, built in 1907; the Coram school, built in 1900; the
East Middle Island school, built in 1835, and the West Middle Island
school, built in 1813, which is the oldest one of the six schools making
up the Middle Island Central School district.
Additions to the four schools in the district have been
completed at Coram, West Middle Island,
Yaphank
and Ridge. Longwood High School, which is under construction, is
expected to be ready for occupancy by next September