Public or District School. -- It is not known where the first school-house was located. All that is known is that it was abandoned in 173i); afterwards the second school-house was erected on the highway, o])l)osite the northwest corner of the S(juire place. This house was abandoned about 1829, and the school was kept in the academy building until about 184(1, when a school-house was erected on the road to Rye, southwest of the residence of Mr. Timothy Dick. This building was burned in 1848, and the place occupied as a school was rented.

In 185G the present brick structure was erected ; in 1875 a large addition was nuide, and in 188() still further additions were made. In 1874, Mr. Charles A. CJanung was appointed jirincipal of the school, and is still in charge. The average daily attendance is three hundred.

cemeteries.

The oldest cemetery in White Plains surrounds the Presbyterian Church, on Broadway, and contains about four acres. It dates back to 1730. The graves are all directly east and west, and not in line or at right angles with either side of the grounds.

The White Plains Rural Cemetery. -- This cemetery was incor[)orated November 20, 1854. A tract of thirty-six acres was purchased, bounded on

the east by Broadway and on the south by the highway leading from Broadway to Greenburgh. About 1862, the affairs of the company having fallen into disorder, its creditors were induced, through the efforts of Wm. H. Albro, Esq., to exchange their claims for cemetery lots of corresponding value. Under its present management the cemetery is well kept, and is in a prosperous condition.