Built in 1865 and having operated until 1949, the Pine Grove School House educated students for eighty years before it was the last one-room school house in town to permanently close its doors.

It was originally named Schoolhouse #7 until a teacher renamed it in the 1920 after noticing a grove of pine trees nearby; one of Avon’s current elementary schools bears the same name in honor of the original school.

It’s a marvelous sight to explore as you’ll get a detailed understanding of how children attended school in the one room building which was lit by kerosene lamps and heated by a wood stove.

3 Harris Rd, Avon, CT 06001, Phone: 860-678-7621, Map

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