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Amityville Public Schools

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Amityville Public Schools A short history with some personal view points           I am not sure when the built the first school house. Then in the year 1872 a wooden school house. Which was a three-classroom affair on the corner of Ireland Place and Park Avenue. This school house was moved to Broadway opposite Avon place to make room for a new school building on Park Avenue and Ireland Place. The wooden building served many uses over the years and still is today. When I was growing up in the 1940’s & 50’s it hosed the Amity Battery and Ignition Company. Park North School Building After they removed the old wooden schoolhouse they built a new brick building in the same spot on Ireland place and Park Avenue. They used the tower from the old wooden building for fortifying it. plus, they had two Civil War cannons on either side of the front walk. The bell which used to call students to classes was place on a monument on the corner of Ireland Place and Park Avenue. T