1916:GERSHOM MOTT - MOTT SCHOOL

This facility is still alive and well down on Centre Street in Trenton. It is a South Trenton institution and the place of learning for many old time Trenton residents. My friend, the late Lelan "Lee" Buker gave me a copy of a multi page reunion news letter from Mott alumni.

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Unknown said...

I went to Mott for K through 6.
I did not recogize any of the teachers names except Mary Korn. I had her for 4th grade in 1951.
She was a teacher that did not tolerate silliness, but nice withal. Incidently there is an MSNBC contributor, David Korn, who looks very much as Miss Korn did. Each time I see him I think of her.
Mott School has moved to Stokley Ave. just around the corner from where we once lived in a row house on Third St. Lots of my early memories attach to the Centre Street building.
Don Nugent HHS '60

Saturday, June 08, 2013

1916 MOTT SCHOOL MINI HISTORY

 The Mott School was the successor to one of Nottingham Township's first school houses in South Trenton. When Hamilton Township was formed in 1842, that section of what was then Nottingham Township wa annexed to the city of Trenton. The above story by young Mott student Jeanette Willey tells is a mini history of that great old school which still stands today on Trenton's Centre Street.