The McKownville schoolhouse, seen from Schoolhouse Road , photo taken c.1910.
  [from archive of and contributed by Don Reeb]
(the caption below is edited from an article in the Turnpike Record, 21 April 1973)
Built originally as a one-room school, on a 1 acre lot sold on 3rd July 1877 for $250 to School District No. 11 by William J and Lydia McKown. In the 1890's or early 1900's a wing was added. From the early 1900's until the school was closed with consolidation into the Guilderland Central School District in 1953, it was distinctive in being always painted yellow.

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