This is the Bonus Cache for the Goshen History Tour Adventure Lab. It can be found at:
https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/GoshenHistoryTour
Coordinates will be given at the completion of this Adventure Lab experience.
Sometimes referred to as the Old Stone Schoolhouse it is one of the first schools in the county, it remained in use for well over a century, possibly two. It is believed to be both the oldest and longest-used one-room schoolhouse in the United States.
Its year of construction is not known. It falls sometime between 1723, when a local landowner deeded the surrounding 20 acres to the community for school purposes; and 1792, when the Goshen Repository carried an advertisment for a teacher for the school.
Legend has it that, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was riding by on a trip from nearby Florida to his headquarters at Newburgh, and stopped briefly at the school to talk to the children. William Henry Seward, later United States Secretary of State, walked the three miles here from the village of Florida to the south for afternoon classes when he was growing up.
Long referred to as the Borden Quarry School for a nearby excavation site, it was in use continuously until 1938. Fifty years later it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is maintained today by the Minisink Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.