OCTOBER 2025 - FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Part of our recent Back to School Series of schoolhouses in Lisbon, Lyman, and Landaff which we posted on Facebook and was a BIG hit, was this c. 1912 picture of the Lisbon Public School student body on the lawn of the 1891 school which shows the 1911 addition on the back of the building. There were two separate doors at the front of the building, one for boys and one for girls. Boys occupied the west side of the building, and girls occupied the east side of the building. In 1912 there were 10 teachers and 300 pupils, and the school was valued at $50,000. The old wood building was torn down in 1992. It was a fire hazard, and it was not accessible. A new high school/middle school with gymnasium and library at a cost of 3.9 million was built that connected to the brick 1960 elementary wing. The original bell tower was salvaged and stands across the road from the school. The final addition to the school was put on in 2005 and consisted of two additional rooms and renovation of two other rooms for kindergarten.