From Lillie Fitzpatrick 1987 Thesis
The little town continued to grow and in 1885, the Friendship School was built on Powell Place Road to serve the children who had to travel too far to go to the other schoolhouses.
Lillie Fitzpatrick, 1987
From Joan Spaeth Harper, former Friendship Mill resident
Joan donated several photos of the Friendship area. Among them were a few of their family’s house, which she stated at one time used to be a schoolhouse.
A schoolhouse was built at the Friendship Sawmill site sometime in the very late 1800’s. Census data notes several families lived in the area, as the sawmill provided jobs to many people in the area.
When the Spaeth family purchased the property in 1938 the old schoolhouse was converted to a residence for the family.
The school was demolished in the early 2000’s because it was falling down and had become hazardous. A storage garage was built close to the spot where the school had been.
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