Gaylordsville Historical Society

Early in 1967, the New Milford Board of Education announced that for a variety of reasons it was no longer practical to keep the Gaylordsville school open and it would be permanently closed in June. Gaylordsville would lose the school established 284 years ago, where for 227 years its children had started their education. The announcement was received with regret. The school, the last one room school to be operated in the state, had earned their affection during its long career.

A group of Gaylordsville residents soon began working to provide for the preservation of the building. At a town meeting in 1968, a resolution was passed barring its sale, as this had always been the fate of schools no longer used. No deed to the land could be found, so it was assumed that the land would revert to the owner of the surrounding property. Mr. Norris Wildman, owner of the property at the time, agreed to relinquish to the town whatever rights he might have if the school was to be preserved. In 1969 a resolution was adopted in a town meeting calling for the restoration and preservation of the school as an historic site. The Board of Selectmen appointed a committee to be responsible for this project.

In 1975, the Gaylordsville Historical Society was started with its first president, John D. Flynn, Sr. The purpose of the organization is to bring together the people interested in the history of Gaylordsville and to display, preserve and protect items of historical interest and significance to the community.

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  Brown's Forge

  The Blacksmith Shop was an important place in Gaylordsville …

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  The Oral History of Alan Dodd…

  Á la recherche du temps perdu

• Rural Free Delivery at Gaylordsville
• Driving a Car in the Early 1920's
• The Milk Business in Gaylordsville
• Building Route 7 in the Early 1920's
• The Old LaFrance
• New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad
• I Remember Bank Street
• New Milford High School In The Teens And Twenties
• John D. Flynn
• The Bridges of Gaylordsville
• Squash Hollow