Built in 1800, classes were held for students in grades one through eight in the Norwich Bridge School until 1919. At first, school was usually broken into two terms: the spring and winter, that lasted about ten weeks per term. Eventually, there were three [fall, winter, spring] terms ranging from 10-12 weeks in length and then finally, four terms, including late spring and fall breaks for planting and harvesting. It was common for teachers to be boarded in townspeople’s homes. Some taught for an entire year, and others taught for just one term and then moved on to another school, or community. It seems that the Norwich Bridge School, never held more than 16 students during any one term.
The first Murrayfield School was built in 1892 – and eventually the Norwich Bridge School closed its doors as a town schoolhouse in 1919, and its students attended the larger school closer to the new center of the town.
There were different efforts to save and preserve the building and create a living museum beginning in 1971. In 1976 a Bicentennial grant was used to more fully restore the schoolhouse to its original condition as a one-room district school with desks and blackboards. Once the efforts of many dedicated and skilled volunteers was completed, the schoolhouse-museum came to life once again. The museum both stores, and displays, interesting historical papers, documents, photos, books, period costumes and furniture, artifacts, as well as portraying its service to townspeople as a school. More restorative work was undertaken in 1981. In 1985, there was a reunion of still-living former students of the Norwich Bridge School held there. Today, it serves as the Norwich Bridge School Museum and is overseen by the Huntington Historical Society.