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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 3 (search)
e division of the town. Mr. Underwood died in office March 4, 1840. Among the few things inherited by the new town of Somerville was the Milk Row schoolhouse, the oldest school structure on our soil, dating from 1819, and valued at $650. Among other things that fell to us were a few teachers and some of the trustees. Miss Burnham, in point of service, was the oldest of the former, having been first elected to a Charlestown school in the spring of 1836. She remained with us until August, 1846. Up to that time this was an unprecedented term of service within our borders. She received a salary of $210. Somerville benefited by the experience of two old trustees, Guy C. Hawkins and Alfred Allen, who were elected members of our first school board. We may believe that the policy of our schools, at least for a few years, was much the same as before 1842. With the growth of the town, Miss Burnham's school increased from fifty-one, the number in 1842, to 101 pupils when she left