Metcalf Square

This historic site was once home to three village schools. The first, a one-room school built in 1805, was replaced in 1851 when a larger building was needed. The first Town Hall was built here in 1856 with a school on the second floor. Lucius Floyd recalled that when he was a pupil in 1851, water was supplied by sending a boy to an old well belonging to Samuel Belcher, and the sparkling beverage was dispensed around the room from a rusty dipper. He also related that a stove where two-foot logs were burned occupied the center of the room, with the older boys taking turns building the fires and sweeping. Seventy-five years later, the old wooden Town Hall was torn down and the brick United States Post Office was built in its place in 1932. Since 1993, the Winthrop Police Station has occupied the Post Office building.

Winthrop Town, Massachusetts · United States