District #7 School

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District #7 School, Winn Road, Cumberland, Maine

The Winn Road School, on the intersection of Winn, Range, and Cross Roads, was built in 1848.

An excerpt from Maine: An Encyclopedia describes the school as “one of only two known surviving one-room, brick, Greek Revival schoolhouses in Maine, the other, also in Cumberland, has been substantially altered.… Little remains of its original interior, but a sloping floor, allowing a teacher to keep an eye on students, remained in 1983.”

The building was used briefly as a salt shed after the school closed, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Today, it is privately owned.

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Francis Small (left) and Al Taylor (right) stand in front of the former schoolhouse during its days as a salt shed