Our presence on facebook is to provide and promote interest in our town history, our communities and thoughtful discussion of our past. We encourage ALL of our residents to share their own histories, photos and historical information as it relates to our town and residents and their family histories. Please be respectful and considerate with comments and posts. are property of KHS and/or the individual submitter and not for copy or publication without permission. Proper source credits must be provided. Prior to the centralization of schools and construction of school buildings we use today, many children of the area attended local schoolhouses. There were eight one room School houses in the town of Kent, one in each district. A few of these original School houses still exist in our town as private homes. The Farmers Mills schoolhouse is the only one that is open to the public. The current schoolhouse at Farmers Mills (built in 1900 - 1901) replaced an earlier building on Dean Road that caught on fire. The Mead Family owned practically all the land along the west side of the road and at this point it is believed that they contributed the land for the new school building. This schoolhouse served the community in many other ways. Church services were held here when the Kent and Fishkill Church burned down, voting polls for the town and other community meetings. This school was closed as a teaching facility in 1944. The formation of the Kent Historical Society was the direct result of the purposes and goals of the Kent Bicentennial Committee- “to preserve and conserve things of lasting value in our communities”. The Kent Historical Society is a 501 C3 Tax Exempt organization first chartered by the NYS Regents Board in 1978. The Kent Historical society is completely volunteer run and depends on membership dues, fundraisers, and donations to run its programs, maintain its buildings and grounds and accomplish its current mission to preserve, promote and disseminate materials regarding the town of Kent. Clark Darling, KHS President. [email protected]
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Kent Historical Society, P.O. Box 123, Carmel, N.Y. 10512. For an application form: [email protected]
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If you want to post or comment, please use these simple rules:
- Be kind and respectful. Remember that sometimes what you might find funny, someone else may take as an offensive.
- The content rule for this page is local history. Very few exceptions will be made as this is our focus. Plenty of other groups for memories and discussions exist.
- You can post a current event as long as it is focused locally and about the historic record. This would include new history books published, or historical reenactment‘s, history lectures etc.
- Please do not post isolated photographs of people or buildings without any explanation as to who or what this might be. For example, you may have photographs of family members back in the day. Please indicate who is in the photo and where it was taken, as much as you know. You may find out that others may still know whoever the person(s) is. We do have members who might remember a lot more detail than you do. The idea is let’s use the collective memory of people to enhance our knowledge of our history.
- Simply copying posts that took the researchers a long time to put together is not acceptable. Posts or parts of posts are not to be copied to others and other groups with no explanations or credits.
- If you have copied a photograph from some other archive or website, kindly acknowledge where it might have been from. There is much out there that is not in the public domain and is copyrighted material. In most cases however these can be used as long as it is for educational purposes and provenance is given. If there are those individuals who you wish to see what has been posted, simply invite them to the page.
- Anyone who copies material from this page and posts it to another group or to their own page with the intention of sharing will be immediately removed from this page. Administrators of private groups may share to their page by using the share option. Members spend a lot of time researching and it is their hard work that shows up here. It is OK to share someone else’s article to this group that clearly shows the author and the source, as long as there are no copyright restrictions on the sharing of that material. Again, we are happy that you are here in this group. All are welcome to join in the conversation or simply sit back and enjoy without commenting. This is a very well written explanation from Angie Piwinski, Yonkers, New York and has been edited here for the purpose of this page.
