Hornbine Roof Repair Contract Approved

The Rehoboth Board of Selectmen on Monday approved a contract with B and R Fournier Construction to perform roof repairs for the Hornbine School at 144 Hornbine Road.

$9125 has been appropriated for the project, which also includes replacing an outhouse on the property.

The expenditure was approved at last June’s annual Town Meeting. The funds will be drawn from the Historic Preservation Reserve of the Community Preservation Act (CPA).

The Hornbine School is a historic one room schoolhouse.

Built in the late 1840s and operated until 1937, it is the best-preserved rural schoolhouse in the town. Originally one of fifteen district schools (it was district #10), it remained in use even as the town began consolidating its district schools in the 1920s, and finally closed in 1937. It was afterward converted for use as a private residence, and eventually fell into disrepair. It was acquired by the non-profit Hornbine School Association in 1968.

The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and now serves as a local history museum.