Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY School Site
Settled at Last--The last number of the Bainbridge Review states that for forty years past, St. Peter's Church and School District No. 11 in the village of Bainbridge, have been disputing over a small school house site, sandwiched between two grave yards on the corner of the village green. The affair began to assume a threatening aspect when about a year since a suit was commenced by the Church against the District, but at a school meeting on the 5th inst., the proposition was made by the Vestry of St. Peter's Church to buy the old site, and thus settle all litigation, which was accepted. Several new sites were brought before the meeting at that time for its consideration, but no action was taken, an adjournment being had until the 8th inst. On that evening, after considering the relative merits of the sites proposed, an acre of land at the corner of Juliand and West Juliand streets was almost unanimously selected. The price paid therefor was four hundred dollars, being about equal to the sum received for the old site that has so long been the subject of dissension. Already architects are engaged in preparing the plans and specifications, and the people of Bainbridge are congratulating themselves upon the final ending of the vexed question, and the prospect of a model school building at no distant day. [Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, Mar. 20, 1873]
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