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The Old One Room Ironstone School
in Uxbridge has been proudly renovated by the South Uxbridge Community
Association and is used to teach schoolchildren about old school days. It is
also used for Footsteps in History and other events as well as for community
picnics, events.
This is the third site for this
one room school house, built in the mid 1800s after fire took the first two
schoolhouses.
The village of Ironstone may have
been among the first settled regions of Uxbridge, in the early
1730s. 'The historic Ironstone School' is an an historic
building and was used a recently as 1948 as a traditional one
room schoolhouse. The original building dated from 1797 and had
eight grades and one teacher. Ironstone was influential in
Uxbridge's historical transformation from agriculture to
manufacturing. Circa 1734, Benjamin Taft, a member of the famous
American
Taft
family, started an early iron forge, bog iron
mine, and later Caleb Handy added a triphammer operation for
making tools, guns and scythes at this site. The Boston,
Hartford and Erie Railroad even came to the Ironstone area in
the 1860s for shipping goods to the markets west and east. The
Buxton family, from just across the border in
Slatersville, Rhode Island, was prominent in
this community in the 1700's including Captain James Buxton who
fought in the Revolutionary War. A re-creation of a Fife and
Drum Corps at Uxbridge has taken the name of Captain James
Buxton.
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