Funding secured by Assemblywoman Russell helps to obtain schoolhouse for the St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum

      Assemblywoman Addie Russell announced that she secured $5,000 to assist the St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum in acquiring an historic schoolhouse from Jefferson County. The schoolhouse was located on Route 11 and had been owned by the Indian River School District. The Museum methodically dismantled the building and reassembled it on their property in Madrid.

     “I grew up seeing that building almost every day,” Said Assemblywoman Russell said. “It is an historic treasure – a piece of our north country heritage worth preserving. I was very pleased to be able to support the effort of the Power and Equipment Museum to acquire it and move it to the museum grounds where it can be toured by the public with proper historical interpretation.”

      Museum Secretary Roger Austin said, "My wife and I would drive by the little white schoolhouse on Route 11 as we headed to Georgia or returned to the North Country. We would say how wonderful it would be to have the schoolhouse for the St. Lawrence Power & Equipment Museum. We talked to the Assemblywoman a few years back and she helped make it happen.”

      Assemblywoman Russell attended Saturday’s dedication of the schoolhouse in Madrid.

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