Last summer’s donation of a group of documents to the Hatfield Historical Museum by W. Michael and Judy Ryan included an important primary source document – the 1813 contract with Amos Pratt for Whately’s southwest district schoolhouse. It shows the formality and level of specification used at the time for a town building. It records who specified it, who built it, what it should look like, when and where it should be built and its cost to the town.
(Click HERE to learn what the contract specified for our sister town of Whately, who was involved and what happened to the schoolhouse that preceded it -- along with the actual document and a transcription.)
Whately Southwest Schoolhouse (Interpretation) - Oil Painting by Monica Vachula