By 1870, seven schools in Huntington Township served 163 pupils in grades one through eight. Each school was identified by number and also by the name of a well-known family in its district. Classes met in one-room buildings with desks of different sizes for very young children and older students, including some of high school age. In the winter of 1821-1822, after John and Marilla Laborie had arrived from Huntington, Connecticut, in April 1818 as the township's first settlers and other families soon followed, a log schoolhouse was built one mile south of here and opened with 14 students. As the population grew to 743 by 1830, additional one-room schoolhouses were built, generally similar in size and equipped with playgrounds, shade trees, and a nearby well or cistern, and pupils often walked a mile or two in all kinds of weather to attend them. The Center School was the seventh and last of these schoolhouses, built soon after the Civil War. It served the community until 1911, when the seven schools were consolidated and classes moved to a new building next door, though some residents opposed the change because Huntington's population had been declining for fifty years as the cheese industry drew people to Wellington, falling from a high of 1,109 in 1860 to 619 by 1910. In 1958, Huntington, Sullivan, Homerville, and Spencer joined to form the Black River Local School District, a high school was built in 1960, and a building for all elementary pupils was not completed until 1996. Sold in 1911 and moved one-half mile north on State Route 58, the Center School building served as a farm out-building until 2005, when it was returned to its original site and restored.