École HYATT School

The settlement of Milby dates back to the 1790s. This one-room schoolhouse stood on land originally granted to Loyalist Abraham Hyatt Sr. in the Hyatt Settlement, now known as Milby. Two brothers, Cornelius and Abraham Jr., settled here, while another brother, Gilbert, first settled at Capelton and later moved to Lower Forks in 1796, then called Hyatt's Mills and known today as Sherbrooke. Loyalist Cornelius Hyatt operated the grist mill and saw mill at the river near the convergence of the Salmon and Moe's rivers, and the boards used to build the school most likely came from his mill. Abraham Jr. operated the general store and trading post. The earliest notarial records show the school was in use in November 1822, and it is one of, if not the oldest, buildings in the area. During restoration, the schoolhouse was moved onto a new foundation, part of the main structure was rebuilt, and the entire building was stabilized with a steel beam. The classroom still retains markings showing where the original desks were screwed to the wide spruce board flooring, and the pine wainscoting indicates where the desks once stood. Known as District No. 2, Township of Ascott, the Hyatt School was restored as the prime project of members of Little Forks Branch of The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada through Patrimoine-Ascott-Heritage.

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