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Old Point Schoolhouse |
The Old Point Schoolhouse, called the “Down-Neck School” by many local
residents, affords the visitor an opportunity to see what a one-room
schoolhouse actually looked like.
The Schoolhouse was built in 1888, about a mile from the tip of Orient
Point. Closed in 1930 for the lack of students, it lost its cupola in
the great hurricane of 1938. For many years the location of the school
bell, which had been cast for this building, was unknown. It was finally
traced and hung in the restored cupola in 1949 when OHS acquired the
building as a gift from Orient resident Edwin King and moved it to its
current location.
The monument and flagpole on the Schoolhouse lawn were erected in 1945
as reminders that the Village House museum had been dedicated to the
veterans of World War II by the founders of OHS.
Today, the Schoolhouse schoolroom features changing exhibitions and its
basement houses administrative offices and provides a meeting place for
OHS activities.
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