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The Fort Salonga School - 1888
The old schoolhouse was located for more than a century on Bread and Cheese Hollow Road, a quarter of a mile from Route 25 where it was eventually moved and converted into an attractive country store, one of the units in the Country Life Center. It ceased serving as a school in 1927, when the district was divided between Northport and Kings Park and consolidated with those districts.

Miss Overton and her pupils of 1888, standing in front of their Fort Salonga Schoolhouse.

The children are numbered from left to right, the identifications are:
1. Alberta Skidmore 2. Florence Smith 3. ____ Guinn. 4. mma Earle. 5. Miss Overton. 6. _____ Fitzgerald. 7. Unidentified. 8. ____ Everding. 9. Nellie Mitchell. 10. Hannah Smith. 11. Fanny Brown. 12. Hannah Andersen. 13. Lizzie Van Dyke. 14. _____  Brown. 15. Hilda Andersen. 16. Annie Gustavison. 17. Mary Sorenson. 18. Katy or Annie Quinn. 19 . _____ Brown. 20. Mabel Sammis. 21. ____ Bloxom. 22. Martha Sorenson. 23. Annie Earl.

Boys - 24. Tom Mullen. 25. Unidentified. 26. Ebenezer Rogera. 27. Bob Sanford. 28. Pete Mortensen or Ludwicksen. 29. Joe Mullen. 30. Will Everding. 31. Lawrence Sammis. 32. Bart Mullen: 33. Gil Sammis. 34. Emil Andersen. 35. George Church. 36. Eddie VanDyke. 37. M. T. Longbothum. 38. Frank Blair. 39. Joe Bryan. 40. Sanford. 41. Arthur McDonald. 42. Harry Smith. 43. August Sorensen.  44. Norman M. Longbothum.