OLD SCHOOL OF THE DAY
Moosup Valley School (Vestry School)
Tyler Free Library
81 Moosup Valley Rd # A
Foster, RI 02825
Moosup Valley is a dispersed agricultural community that follows the length of Moosup Valley Road from a little west of Route 14 to just west of Cucumber Hill Road at the old Tyler Store. The Moosup Valley Historic District is a rural, agricultural historic district in western Foster, Rhode Island. The focal center of the area is a small village where Moosup Valley Road crosses the Moosup River, and where the Moosup Valley Christian Church is located. The largest concentration of buildings in the district lie along a roughly one-mile stretch of Moosup Valley Road west of Rhode Island Route 14, with properties extending along some of the winding roads (paved and unpaved) that extend from that road. The district encompasses most of the headwaters of the Moosup River. The major public buildings are the church, a vernacular Greek Revival structure built in 1864–65, and the Grange hall, built in 1926. There is also a one-room schoolhouse which was built in 1811, and later used as a library and community center. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The one story one-room schoolhouse with paired entrances and raised flat lintels, built in 1811 on land given for that purpose by Isaac Blanchard, was closed in 1952. The schoolhouse is sometimes called the Vestry School, because Christian church services and Sunday school were held here in the mid-19th century. The original Library was built in 1900 to house a library given by local historian and store-keeper, Casey B. Tyler. In 1965, the structure built just across the road to house the library was moved across the road and joined to the schoolhouse by a large modern addition. The whole building was then opened to create the present Tyler Free Library.
OLD SCHOOL OF THE DAY
Moosup Valley School (Vestry School)
Tyler Free Library
81 Moosup Valley Rd # A
Foster, RI 02825
Moosup Valley is a dispersed agricultural community that follows the length of Moosup Valley Road from a little west of Route 14 to just west of Cucumber Hill Road at the old Tyler Store. The Moosup Valley Historic District is a rural, agricultural historic district in western Foster, Rhode Island. The focal center of the area is a small village where Moosup Valley Road crosses the Moosup River, and where the Moosup Valley Christian Church is located. The largest concentration of buildings in the district lie along a roughly one-mile stretch of Moosup Valley Road west of Rhode Island Route 14, with properties extending along some of the winding roads (paved and unpaved) that extend from that road. The district encompasses most of the headwaters of the Moosup River. The major public buildings are the church, a vernacular Greek Revival structure built in 1864–65, and the Grange hall, built in 1926. There is also a one-room schoolhouse which was built in 1811, and later used as a library and community center. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The one story one-room schoolhouse with paired entrances and raised flat lintels, built in 1811 on land given for that purpose by Isaac Blanchard, was closed in 1952. The schoolhouse is sometimes called the Vestry School, because Christian church services and Sunday school were held here in the mid-19th century. The original Library was built in 1900 to house a library given by local historian and store-keeper, Casey B. Tyler. In 1965, the structure built just across the road to house the library was moved across the road and joined to the schoolhouse by a large modern addition. The whole building was then opened to create the present Tyler Free Library.
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