Rhode Island's last one-room schoolhouse set to close

May 28, 2007
Town of Portsmouth has voted to close facility on Prudence Island.

The Prudence Island School is Rhode Island's last one-room schoolhouse, and it may soon go the way of the paddle-wheel steamboat that once chugged in nearby waters. The School Committee in the town of Portsmouth, which includes Prudence Island, voted in April to shut the doors of the historic 1896 building when school ends next month.

To read The Boston Globe article, click here.

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