Arcade Central High School - Edacra Yearbook (Arcade, NY)

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8 public 1820 821 1827 1828 1837 1839 Norms mon 'rss Pasr qcom 5 April At the first Town Meeting of the Town of China, S75 was approprt ated for the support of common schools At that date the town of China newly separated from the town of Sheldon, included what is now the towns of Arcade and Java This figure of S75 represents the entire cost of tree public education for this large area The following year the sum was ln creased to 3100, at which point it remained until 1827, when it was lncrea sed to S 250 The report of the Commissioners of Common Schools showed 199 children were taught during the past year, although only about S60 was distributed to schools By 1832 the figures had risen to 753 puplls taught and S309 49 divided among 19 districts CAt this time a schoolhouse stood near what, at the present time, is Hurdvllle, and lt is said to have been the on ly frame building in the settlement at thi time Ira Shedd taught school in a log hut that stood, as our town is now laid out just west of the Arcade and Attica Railroad tracks on the south side Main Street that Money there is now in the hands of the Overseers of the Poor will go to the support of common schools The records of the United States Post Office Department show that there were four post offices ln the township China, East China fprobably on the South Road! North China , Uava Lakej, and Centre China KCurr1ersJ Town Meeting April l, Voted to impose a fine of flve dollars on all per sons who shall exhibit any puppet shows with animals or wire dancing wax figures or shows of any kind the present year and the avails of such fines to go for the support of common schools Population of what is now the Village of Arcade was 325 Professor Samuel Sedgwick on behalf of the Arcade School Association, o pened a private academic school ln the basement of the Old Congregation al Church He conducted lt there nmtll the flrst academy building was o pened on the site of the present llethodlst Church five years later Known as 'The Arcade Seminary and Classical School' , courses were offered ln the common English branches at three dollars per term, the higher English branches at four dollars, for Latin, Greek, French and German Language flve dollars extra This school continued untll about 1853 or 1854 when the bulldlng was sold Consequently there was no secondary education available in Arcade until the opening of the Arcade Academy in 1863 NOTES FROM THE PAST continued on Page 10 6 181 -- -- - ' t Y 1 ' 2 of 1827 -- The minutes of the Town meeting of the Town of China contain the notes K I .

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