Barton Academy (Vermont)
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Raymond Mason (last)
| Barton Academy | |
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137 Church Street Barton, Vermont | |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Closed | 1967 |
| Principal | Benjamin Hinman Steele (founding) Raymond Mason (last) |
| Colors | Orange and Black |
| Nickname | BA |
Barton Academy was a high school in the town of Barton, Vermont and also served surrounding towns for over a century. The Academy was replaced by the Lake Region Union High School on September 11, 1967.[citation needed] Alumni continue to meet annually, and also fund scholarships for graduates of Lake Region.[citation needed] The building also housed the town's grammar school.[citation needed]
The Academy started in the fall of 1852 in a building on the location now occupied by the school parking lot. There is an early list of students who were enrolled.[1][2] It was chartered by the legislature in 1854.[3]
A listing of graduates from 1926, lists the first class as 1886.[4][5]
The cornerstone of the current building is marked "1907."[6] The project was the biggest building project the town had ever seen. It cost $42,000.[citation needed] An Indian burial ground was discovered during the excavation. There is no record of what happened to those artifacts.[citation needed] The former school was moved across the street in 1909 and later used as a gymnasium and cafeteria. It was torn down in 1980.[7]
In the early 1900s, Barton Academy ranked eighth among all high schools, public and private, in Vermont.[8]
The Academy closed in 1967, replaced by the Lake Region Union High School. The former building, with the name "Barton Academy and Graded School" carved on a 4.5 short tons (4.1 t) granite slab over the entryway,[7] is used as an elementary school.
An addition was completed in 1979.[7]
Architecture
Architectural historians Glenn Andres and Curtis Johnson commented that the school had a "finely proportioned central pavilion with quoins and a broken pediment, and a Palladian porch that screens a recessed entrance" and "There is a finesse and logic to the composition that makes this village school more than a pastiche of derivative details, perhaps indicative of industrial Barton's commercial ties to major centers of taste."[9]
Principals
- Benjamin Hinman Steele, briefly when he was 20 in 1853 or so, a young graduate of Dartmouth and simultaneously studying for the law at the same time! Went on to become a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court and died at the age of 37[10]
- George W. Quimby - about 1859 to 1862.[11] Captain in Civil War, 4th Vermont Infantry, Company D. Killed December 13, 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg[12][13]
- Emilie M. Gleason - June 1877[14]
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Athletics
The Academy fielded Basketball Teams for both boys and girls and a boys baseball team. It fielded a soccer team beginning about 1958. School colors were orange and black. The mascot was the Yellow Peril. The school's main rival was cross-town Orleans High School.
Recognition
- State Class C Champions, Baseball 1951[18]