May 2023

The Stockholm School, located on Route 515, across from the Stockholm United Methodist Church was one of several one room school houses. Pictured below is the Stockholm School on a winter day circa 1905. As “modern” transportation improved, students who might have had to walk long distances were “driven” to school in horse-drawn covered wagons. The kids are well-dressed, and noticeably, there are at least four school “busses” with a single horse pulling each carriage that held the driver of course and, by the looks of it, six or seven children. Hardyston was rural but active as a mostly farming community.  Children still attended the Stockholm School in the 1950s, before the Hardyston School on Route 23 in Franklin was built. Later, the Stockholm School became the Hardyston Municipal Building, also housing the Hardyston Police Department, until the new building on Wheatsworth Road was opened.