THEN & NOW: Clayton school house - The Berkshire Edge

THEN & NOW: Clayton school house - The Berkshire Edge

This writer was in Torrington, Connecticut recently, and perhaps “divine intervention” led him to a yard sale which offered a number of very old photographs of a family that lived in the Clayton Massachusetts section of New Marlborough.  Among the rare images was the 1905 photograph shown above of a school house built circa 1870 in what was then called East Sheffield. The following year, a local state legislator wanted to establish a railroad li…