It was about 1812 when people of Eden were thinking of building a school. Rowena Flack was the first teacher, probably teaching the three R's in her home. Eden people stood up and pledged what they could afford in either money, material or labor. To the surprise of the citizens, a Mr.Gail said he would furnish the nails. Mr. Gail then went to Buffalo, which had just burned from the War of 1812-1814, and he simply picked up nails from the buildings that had been burned to the ground months earlier. It was then that a frame log school house was built. The location was thought to be near the four corners.
In 1822, when log buildings in Eden were beginning to be replaced by frame buildings, a one room school was built on the site of the present town hall called District 4. Pictured is a schoolhouse that may have been that building.
(From Doris Anderson's History, courtesy of the Town Historian.)
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