C: 1896
contributed by:
  John Green

The new brick Mountain Graded School, grades 1 - 12,  was built at the top of the mountain, next to the wooden one room schoolhouse, in 1897. That building burned in 1905, possibly due to an overheated wood furnace. The morning after the fire, school children could not see that the building was destroyed until they had climbed the hill, and disappointing to many,  they were immediately herded into the town hall where classes continued as usual.  The school was soon rebuilt in the same location. Additions were built on both sides of this building a few years later and it continued to be used for both elementery and high school until 1948.