People, places and memory
The Friendship school that became a family home
Local history and resident recollection
At Friendship Mill, a school’s later life survives in a former resident’s family photographs.
A different Friendship school
Lillie Fitzpatrick’s 1987 thesis, quoted in the THS school history, dates a school on Powell Place Road to 1885, intended for children living too far from other classrooms. This was the sawmill community’s school, separate from the Friendship Bogs building later preserved in Tabernacle.
Home after the classroom
Joan Spaeth Harper supplied photographs of her family’s house and identified it as the former school. The society dates the family’s property purchase to 1938 and describes the building’s conversion to a residence. It reports demolition in the early 2000s after deterioration made the structure hazardous.
Sources and research limits
The opening year comes from a later thesis; the residential identification rests on a former resident’s account. A school register or deed could strengthen the sequence. The family photographs preserve a building’s second use, but they should not be confused with proof of every detail of its earlier classroom arrangement.