This card featuring the Munn schoolhouse is designed to send to honored educators. The inside text reads: “In Recognition of: (Insert Name). A donation has been received in your honor to support the relocation and preservation of Mr. Munn’s Schoolhouse, a one-room building where children were taught in the 1850’s. “You are being honored and recognized by: (Donor’s Name)”
The Oxford Historical Society recently announced an opportunity to honor teachers, past and present.
Titled “Honor an Educator; Move a Schoolhouse,” this fundraiser offers families and friends of Oxford’s children to recognize the teachers who shaped their lives while making a contribution towards moving and restoring Mr. Munn’s School, Oxford’s only remaining one room schoolhouse.
Currently sited on Oxford Road and built in 1850, the building served as a private boys’ boarding school for several years and then became a public high school for Oxford’s older students. The Historical Society plans to preserve the schoolhouse by relocating it to stand near the Twitchell-Rowland Homestead Museum at 60 Towner Lane this summer and then restoring it. Once renovated, it will be used to offer Oxford students the real life experience of a day in a one room school as part of the third grade curriculum.
Those making a donation of $5.00 to the project will receive a notecard decorated with a photo of the Munn School to send to the educator being honored. Inside is a place to inscribe the teacher’s name and a message that a contribution has been made in his or her honor.
The cards may be purchased in the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours or at the Twitchell-Rowland Homestead Museum Open Houses from 2 – 4 p.m. on the first and third Sundays of each month. Forms to buy cards by mail are available online at www.oxford-historical-society.org.
For further information please call 203 888‑0230.
