Redstone School
Historic schoolhouse in Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.
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The Redstone School is a one-room school located in the Wayside Inn Historic District of Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1] Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school to which Mary Sawyer took her lamb in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".[2][3]
| Redstone School | |
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The building in 2025 | |
 Interactive map of the Redstone School area | |
| General information | |
| Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42.358650°N 71.471215°W |
| Completed | 1798 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 1 |
At the time of Sawyer's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. Since before the American Civil War, the building had served as a barn for a local Baptist Church parsonage. In early 1926,[4] the property was purchased by Henry Ford[5] and relocated around 20 miles (32 km) to the east, to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today.[2] Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.[6]
On January 17, 1927, the building reopened as a school,[4] operating for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four.[6] It closed permanently in 1951.[2][6]
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.
In 1934
Rear
Interior
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