1895: HAMILTON TOWNSHIP'S FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL

Before there was a Kuser School, before the Hutchinson School and Homedell School, there was a "Friendship School" on the Cedar Street hill. Cedar Street ultimately became Cedar Lane. I recall Mrs. Helen Mack Sutterlin relating stories of her trip to school. She walked from her home at Kuser Farm where her father was the caretaker, across the woods, and over to Cedar Street, then across fields to the old Hutchinson School in the area of today's Woolsey Avenue. This would have been after the Friendship School was abandoned in favor of the Hutchinson School, which in turn was the predecessor to the Homedell School which was built in 1911.