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The school at Unionville was located near the corner of Wachusett Street and Bullard Street next to the Unionville Mill
across the street from Unionville Pond. The citizens of this section of town were likely the first to set aside a parcel of
land to be used for school purposes.
May 19, 1760 - The town voted "that the Easterly part of this town have
Liberty to Build a School House upon there own Charges and to be Exempt from
Building any other in this Town." It does not appear that a building was
constructed at this time.
December 1761 - The town again considered to "Put to Vote to See if
the Town would Reconsider their vote in the year 1760 with Regard to Setting of
the Easterly End of the Town as a School District the Vote Being put it passed in
the Negative."
1841 - State reports indicate that the brick schoolhouse familiar to most
people, was built during the 1841–42 school year and replaced an
existing building.
March 4, 1844 - The school committee report states, "District No. 2
have a house on a good model & they have a model school too. In respect to neatness, good, [sic] order
and proficiency in learning, that District, instead of being No. 2 is No. 1. It is the banner school,
and no small part of this desirable condition as well as the peculiar interest which is felt by the
inhabitants of that District generally, in the school results from their neat, commodious & comfortable
school house. Since that house was remodeled, it has been used nearly two years, summer and winter, & you wd
scarcely know from its appearance, that a hand or foot had been into it. The walls look as if the paper had
just been put on, and the seats & desks as if they had just been made. And the faces, hands & clothes of the scholars
correspond with the house. And it is perfectly natural - Mankind are to a great extent, in spite of themselves,
influenced by the circumstances by which they are surrounded. And it is peculiarly so with children. Keep a
boy in a pigpen & he will look like a pig & act like a pig. But keep him in a neat pleasant room & the good
effects upon his taste & habits will be very manifest."
1846 - In the March 2, 1846 School Committee Report, the schoolhouse is
described as "convenient & pleasant."
1877 - New out-buildings were constructed in 1877.
1886 - The school closed for the winter session of 1886 and the autumn
term of 1887.
1888 - Again in 1888, better sanitary arrangements were made at the school.
1893 - New shingling was done on the roof in 1893.
Unionville School as seen from Wachusett Street
at the intersection of Bullard Street
1898 - It was also closed for the spring term of 1898.
Unionville interior, 1900
1901 - The school closed for the fall and winter sessions of 1901 and for the
entire following year.
Unionville School
1929 - In 1929 the Unionville School closed and all students began attending
school at Rice School. Mrs. Katherine A. Prue purchased the building.
Yearly reunions were held there by former students.
1935 - The building was destroyed by fire in 1935.
Known Teachers
1859 - Nancy Perry,
William P. Bigelow
1860 - Miss Martha Moore,
Mr. E. L. Barnard
1861 - Miss Janette Paine,
Mr. Joseph H. Gleason
1862 - E. L. Bryant,
Miss Janette Paine,
Capt. J. H. Gleason
1863 - Sarah J. Colvin
1864 -
1865 - Mary M. Newell,
Sarah J. Colvin
1866 - Mary M. Newell,
Sarah J. Colvin
1867 - Miss Martha Moore,
Lizzie A. White,
Eunice C. Boyden
1868 - Eunice C. Boyden
1869 - Mary F. Colburn,
J. M. Wilson
1870 -
1871 -Nancy Perry,
W. D. Chenery
1872 - Nancy Perry,
W. D. Chenery
1873 - M. F. Coburn,
M. V. Damon,
L. A. Pope
1874 - Alice A. Fernald,
Jennie L. Titus
1875 -
1876 - Ella M. Adams,
H. M. Greenwood
1877 - H. M. Greenwood
1878 - H. M. Greenwood
1879 - H. M. Greenwood,
Emma M. Bemis
1880 - H. M. Greenwood,
H. E. Houghton
1881 - Addie M. Black,
Nellie M. Davis,
Fannie D. Martin
1882 - H. M. Greenwood,
Nellie M. Davis,
Myra C. Healy
1883 - Nellie M. Davis,
Mary W. Leonard
1884 - Nellie M. Davis,
Mamie A. Leonard
1885 - Mamie A. Leonard,
Lila S. Boyden
1886 - Lila S. Boyden,
Hattie I. Gleason
1887 - N. D. Chamberlain
1888 - Belle M. Rice
1889 - Jennie B. Rice
1890 - Miss Jennie B. Rice
1891 - Miss Jennie B. Rice
1892 - Miss Jennie B. Rice,
Maud E. Graham
1893 - Miss Jennie B. Rice,
Maud E. Graham
1894 - Lucy P. Boyden,
Maude A. Moulton
1895 - Lois M. Hubbard
1896 - Bertha E. Graham
1897 - Bertha E. Graham,
Clara P. Howe
1898 - Josie L. Carey
1899 - Josie L. Carey
1900 - Josie L. Carey,
Alice E. Buck
1901 - Alice E. Buck
1902 - NO SCHOOL
1903 - Ellen R. Bohan,
Clare H. Groby
1904 - Florence Kirby,
Mary E. Lamberton
1905 - Mary E. Lamberton,
Agnes L. Kirby
1906 - Agnes L. Kirby
1907 - Agnes L. Kirby
1908 - Agnes L. Kirby,
Margaret Balcom,
Mary F. Donovan
1909 - Mary F. Donovan,
Helen G Ayer & Anna Lynch,
Joseph M. Tracy
1910 - Joseph M. Tracy
1911 - Joseph M. Tracy,
Mary King
1912 - Gladys W. Spaulding,
Mildred Burt
1913 - Mildred Burt,
Nellie F. O'Neil
1914 - Ethel P. Brady
1915 - Ethel P. Brady
1916 - Ethel P. Brady
1917 - Ethel P. Brady
1918 - Ethel P. Brady
1919 - Mary B. Finnigan & J. Etta Wheeler
1920 - Helena K. Rutherford
1921 - Helena K. Rutherford
1922 - Helena K. Rutherford
1923 - Helena K. Rutherford
1924 - Helena K. Rutherford
1925 - Freida M. Parker
1926 - Clara B. Whitney
1927 - Clara B. Whitney
1928 - Clara B. Whitney
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