YEAR:

185871905

1858

1862 1865— 1867 1868

1869

1873

1874

1875-1879

1880-1881

1882

1883- 1886 l887A 1890

1891

1892

1893 1894 I895

“Birch Hill” And “Farmington”

TEACHER’S NAME AND SCHOOL INSPECTOR’S COMMENTS:

The school in Farmington is referred to "Birch Hill School. "

Michael Scully "The most elementary branches only taught. "

J. Kennan James McTague Vacant

Mary A. Peters “Teacher industrious; progress of children is retarded by want of apparatus and irregular attendance. "

Minnie Byrne “The instruction is exact and progress highly satisfactory, in advance of what would be reasonably expected in a school so deficient of proper

furniture and apparatus. "

James Maclntyre “Irregular Attendance. Badlyfumished. "

Minnie Byrne “The school is in satisfactory state."

Annie Cumminsky

Vacant Mary A. Farmer Frances (Fannie) Keefe

Lawrence P. Doyle, author of thefamous poem “Picnic at Groshaut," was elected School Tntsteefor one year. (1888)

Along with James Walsh and James Larkin. Lawrence Doyle was a member of a committeefor building a new Birch Hill schoolhouse. (1890}

Alice Doran From 1891 on. Lawrence Doyle was Secretary of the School District until his death

P.W. Farrell “A new schoolhouse affair dimensions has been built in Farmington and Sititablyfurnished."

Joseph Mallard Bennet Mclsaac E. Josephine Dwan

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