Leader-Herald/Harold F. Laird The old Plank Road schoolhouse was moved May 29 from its location on Old Trail Road to the Fonda-Fultonville Central School campus on Cemetery Street in Fonda. The school was moved east along Old Trail Road and south down Old Johnstown Road.

A one-room schoolhouse, the last remaining district school of the Fonda-Fultonville Central School District, has been moved to its new home on the grounds of the Fonda-Fultonville Central School plaza in Fonda.

The school building, which arrived at the new site yesterday afternoon, will serve as a museum. The schoolhouse will be set up to depict a school at the turn of the century. Items for the museum have been collected from other district schools that have closed and from private donations.

The Little Red Schoolhouse committee chairman, Millard Crane, said that while desks, maps, pictures and a potbellied stove are ready to put into the structure, it will be next year before the museum will open.

The reason for the delay is the needed repair that the building needs and that all the work is being done on a volunteer basis.

The one-room schoolhouse is over 100 years old and was last used in 1949. Then, it was known as the old Plank Road school of the Mohawk District 7.

Records indicate that the school was completely remodeled about 1900 because it was in such a state of disrepair.

The building is 28 feet wide and 36 feet long. Preparations for the present move took two days and the actual move took six hours. One problem faced was the need to move telephone poles and to cut down some trees along the route, Crane said. The building was brought down from Old Trail Road and then the Old Johnstown Road to reach its new location.

Organizations of the Fonda-Fultonville area have been planning for this event since 1968.