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Litchfield I felt that the Litchfield PTA should also do something special, something school-wide to mark the start of the New Millennium. We talked it over and decided to make a book including a photo and a little information about each student, teacher and staff member who was present at the Litchfield Elementary School as we ushered in the New Millennium. This booklet is the result of that wish to capture this point in time at the Litchfield School, for future generations that might someday have a desire to learn more about us. This book is the Litchfield PTA’s substitute time capsule for the year 2000. Our plans are to donate a copy of this book to the Bradford County Historical Society for safekeeping. When I spoke with Denise Golden at BCHS, she was very receptive to the idea. Since that time, Mrs. Kay Husick has also expressed an interest in having a copy made for the Sayre School District’s archives. All we needed to do was to make the book but with time constraints and a busy schedule, I was falling way behind our deadline. Mrs. Tammy Card, parent of a Litchfield student and computer instructor at the Epiphany School in Sayre, Pennsylvania, graciously volunteered to rescue the project for us. This booklet is the result of Tammy’s creative design, layout and hard work. She also took all of the digital photos for us. A special thank you is owed to Tammy for making this project a reality! Without her, I doubt we would have completed it this school year. I would also like to thank my fellow PTA officers for all their help during the 1999-2000 school year and for their support of this project. Litchfield PTA officers for 1999-2000: Linda Gowan, Vice-President Deb Agnew, Treasurer Amy Millard, Secretary Deb Bergquist, Fund-raiser Chairperson Thanks are also owed to all the students, parents, teachers and staff for completing our Millennium questionnaire.
-Mary Lou Benjamin
The following is the earliest Litchfield School record I could find at the Sayre School District’s archives, housed in a room above the Sayre High School Library. Kay Husick and Priscilla House, who are currently organizing the archives, were kind enough to show me the records. - Mary Lou Benjamin December 21, 1880
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This Monthly Report was “filed, examined, and approved, this 27 day of January 1881” by C. E. McKinney, Secretary.
Litchfield Now...And Then The following excerpts are quoted from a newspaper article by Delores Drake of RD 1, Sayre, Pennsylvania that appeared in The Evening Times on Saturday, March 2, 1996. Litchfield’s fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Ruth Brown, called my attention to this great article covering the history of the Litchfield Schools. This is reprinted here with Delores’ permission, which I received via telephone conversation on May 20, 2000. A special thank you is owed to Mrs. Drake for allowing us to use her wonderful article here.– Mary Lou Benjamin
By Delores Drake … The children of Litchfield Township received their elementary education in one room schools located in 10 different areas. #1. The Park Hollow School located near the intersection of Park Hollow and Snow roads. #2. The Merrill School located near the intersection of Sayre Hill and Campbell Road; Ralph Williams lives there now. #3. The Cotton Hollow School located at the intersection of Evans and Cotton Hollow roads; Pete Fariello lives there now. #4. The Litchfield School located on the intersection of Grimley and Litchfield Road; Lavere Munn lives there now. #5. The Perry School located on the intersection of North Rome and Sportsman roads. #6. The Vawter School located ¼-mile north of the intersection of Macafee and Vawter roads, near where Larry Henry lives now. #7. The Hunt Hollow School located at the intersection of Macafee and Litchfield roads; Charlie Campbell lives there now. #8. The South Hill School located near the intersection of North Rome and Orange Hill roads; Kevin Tobbe lives there now. #9. The White School located at the intersection of Cotton Hollow and Macafee roads, across from where Cal Johnston lives. #10. I couldn’t find the location. All these schools were built alike, one large room with a wood stove near the front. It was the teacher’s responsibility to build and keep the fire and clean the school. She would appoint different pupils to carry water from nearby homes and to bring in wood for the stove. Work bees at nearby farms were held to cut the winter supply of wood. If the enrollment was down at one school, they closed the school temporarily and the students walked to the next closest school. The Litchfield School was built in Litchfield Center in 1926 and the one-room schools were closed forever. It had four large rooms, each with a wood stove tended by the teacher. The first room on the left was used as a storeroom. The first room on the right was first, second and third grades. The room on the right in the back had fourth, fifth and sixth. The room in the left in the back held seventh and eighth. There was no indoor plumbing, but there was a dug well with a hand pump to provide water to the students. Rest rooms were provided with chemically treated facilities. Kids were transported to school by a “Reo” bus and sometimes by sleigh or wagons when the roads were bad. High school students who went to Athens had to find their own transportation. As time went by, the seventh and eighth went to Sayre and a new school was built on the Cotton Hollow Road in 1967. The school provided kindergarten through sixth grade with fifth and sixth sent to the Snyder School several years ago. … … Delores Drake lives on a century farm with her family in Litchfield Township. A special thanks to Butch and Mabel Tobbe, Don Rogers, Letha Campbell Boughton, Irma Keir, Charlie and Jim Drake who helped research this story; also Elaine Pearson, who helped write the story. - The Evening Times, Saturday, March 2, 1996
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