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Help Us Fill the Schoolhouse with Stories
We are looking for West Street School photos, objects, papers, articles, and stories.
What we collect
What We're Looking For
- Photographs of the school, its students, and West Street farm life
- Objects from the school
- Papers and records
- Newspaper articles
- Family stories and memories
If your family name is Arszyla, Borovsky, Borysewicz, Buchko, Burzler, Dlugolenski, Duksa, Edele, Natchiko, Owen, Sepko, Smoron, or Tolles, your relatives may already be in the class photos.
Meet the West Street familiesHow it works
Tell Us What You Have
Use the form below to tell us what you have — a sentence or two is plenty. We'll reply by email to arrange the next step.
Originals can be scanned or photographed, and you keep them — unless you choose to donate them to the Southington Historical Society's collection.
From the archive
What Survives When Families Share
These pieces exist today because a family kept them — and then shared them.
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The West Street families
The farm-family names that fill the school's class photos and reunion rolls
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History of the school
Nearly two centuries of teaching in one room, from 1750 to 1945
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Contact us
Questions about donating, contributing, or visiting — send a message
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