SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TOWN OF LAGRANGE by Clifford M. Buck I thought it would be of interest to find out who were the early owners of land in a typical rural school district with a one room school. I was familiar with what was known as the Lockwood School in District #1 of LaGrange as that was where I went to school from 1906 to 1914.
The 1867 Atlas of Dutchess County by Beers shows each district in color. This district is in the northwest corner of LaGrange and in the Northwest Corner of the original Beekman Patent. The line between Beekman and Rumbout runs diagonally southeasterly from Rochdale to Freedom Plains and so on to Putnam County. The school house is about 7 miles east of Poughkeepsie and now on a short stretch of the old Pleasant Valley-Freedom Plains Road. The district lies in Lots 16 and 17 of the Beekman Patent. Lot 16 is next to the Town of Pleasant Valley. The line between lot 16 and 17 crosses east and west where Rombout road intersects the Pleasant ValleyFreedom Plains Road. The south line of Lot 17 is the south line of the present farms of Stephen Kondas and Jacob Domin and crosses the road about lA mile south of Mountain Road. Most of the land in the Beekman Patent was leased during the 1700's and there are very few deeds until after 1800. For the purpose of locating farms in this district I will refer to the names on the 1867 map.
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