Determining the location of the schoolhouse built in 1851. When Oakfield's first schoolhouse built in 1828 at 6 South Main Street became outdated, the village decided to replace it with a new schoolhouse in 1851. The new school was used along with the Cary Seminary until the Webber Avenue school was built in 1893. The 1876 map of Cary shows the new schoolhouse on Drake Street behind the Cary Seminary building (top left). To find its location in the context of the current village, we appeal to a recent satellite photo (upper right). We register the map with the satellite photo and make the map half transparent so we can see through to the satellite photo beneath (lower left). We observe the 1851 schoolhouse sat approximately on the rear driveway of the Pearl Street School (lower right). Photos respectively from the 1876 atlas of Genesee County, a 2006 aerial photo of the village from TatukGIS Viewer, a translucent overlay produced with Adobe Photoshop, and a Google Earth streetside image.
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