User talk:Dave Downs Hornbine

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 * Thank you - I'll change my USER NAME. I relize I'm probably talking to a computer program but no one knows the exact date for when the Hornbine School was built. It was probably built between 1845 and 1846. I have a copy of the deed for 1847 and the first known teacher taught there in the spring of 1847. Our sign reads "The School was built in the 1840s" because no one knows the exact date.
 * Dave Downs Hornbine (talk) 20:02, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Changing the username does not eliminate the conflict of interest. As for the date, I'm going with the information per the Massachusetts registry for historic buildings: they have it at 1862. —C.Fred (talk) 20:06, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Fred, I've up-loaded the deed for the land for the Hornbine School which was called District # 10 back in the 1840s.
 * When the Hornbine School building was restored in 1968, the volunteers found written information dating back to the 1860s. The date 1862 was thought to be known as the date for the building in 1983 when the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Before and since then, there have been other souces to indicate that the building (District #10 ) was built in the 1845-1847 time period. This deed is one of the indications that the building was built earlier than 1862 which first appeared on Wickapedia mamy years ago. The first teacher, MR. Carpenter, taught there in the spring of 1847. The actual date for the building is probably between 1845 and 1847. Part of the confusion has arisen because land was bought to inlarge the school yard sometime in the 1860s and again in the 1890s. If you deside that the copy of the deed isn't enough to change the date, let me know and I'll see if the Rehoboth Historic Commision can change the information on the Massachusetts Registry for Historic Buildings. Dave Downs = (Palmer River Downs) Palmer River Downs (talk) 21:54, 23 January 2023 (UTC)