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The town of Warren, CT was founded in 1737. This 

sign is located on the Academy grounds. Each year 

the fourth grade of Warren School studies the history 

of our town. 

Our study includes field trips to the Warren Town 

Hall, the Brick Schoolhouse, the old Warren 

Cemetery, the Academy, and a bus tour of Warren's 

historic sites led by Mr. Beecher Perkins, a lifelong 

resident.  

This is the new Warren Town Hall. It was 

designed by architects Ames and Whitaker and 

built by Hawley Construction.

The building was started in March of 2009 and 

was opened for business on June 3, 2010.

It features two vaults and a state of the art 

meeting room. There is radiant heat in all the 

floors and motion sensor lights throughout the 

building.

This is a picture of Mr. Jack Travers, he is the 

town's first selectman. His other duty is the 

superintendent of the town roads. 

He has experience when it comes to 

representing his town. He has been the first 

selectman for nine years. He was a big part of 

making the new Town Hall a success.

These are the three other workers at the Town 

Hall. If Mr. Travers is out, one of these ladies 

will take his place. From left to right they are 

Mrs. Marcia Schultz, tax collector; Mrs. Colleen 

Frisbie, secretary; and Mrs. Joanne Tiedmann, 

town clerk.

Mrs. Frisbie greets people when they come 

through the door with her dog, Copper. Mrs. 

Schultz collects the taxes, most of which is 

used for Warren School. Finally, Mrs. Tiedmann 

keeps the town running smoothly with 

Mr.Travers.

The Brick School House was built in 1784. It was 

used until 1926 when it was closed down due to a 

lack of students and a desire for a central school in 

the town.   It still sits on the site where it was built 

227 years ago.

The children who attended this school walked to 

school every day, some as far as two or three miles. 

The students carried their lunch in a tin box, and 

got drinks from a water bucket using a dipper.

This table is full of historical items. There is a pair 

of old ice skates that children would take to school 

and go ice skating after lunch if they had time.

There is an old slate which children would write on 

instead of paper. They would use chalk instead of a 

pencil.

Behind the skates there is a water dipper. Children 

would dip the dipper into a water bucket and take a 

drink because there was no running water. 

This is the view from the schoolmarm's desk.   A 

bell is on the desk. The schoolmarm would ring the 

bell in the morning to call the children to school. In 

the classroom she used it to get their attention. 

The children sat at desks designed for two 

students at each desk. Children who misbehaved 

were punished and good students received a 

reward of merit card. 

The old Warren Cemetery was constructed in 

the 1700's. It is no longer used. We now have 

a new cemetery.

This was the largest stone in the old Warren 

Cemetery. The name on the stone is Swift. 

We found that the most common names were 

Strong, Curtiss, Sackett, Melius, Hopkins, 

Tanner, Starr, Carter, Perkins, Swift, Lyman, 

and Angevine. We discovered that a lot of 

these names are used as names of roads in 

Warren.  

This is a rubbing of the Henry Katan family. 

Henry lived from 1852 to 1918. His wife Electa 

lived from 1862 to 1922. 

They had two children. Warren, who may have 

been named after our town, lived from 1900 to 

1905. He was only five years old when he 

passed away. Their other child might have died 

at birth since he or she was never named and 

was called "Baby".  

When we went to the old Warren Cemetery we 

all went on a search to find the oldest 

tombstone. We found it in the back of the 

cemetery. The name at the top of the stone 

was Simeon, the date was 1795.

Then below this name was written "George and 

Mary Batterson, died 1795, aged 7 years." We 

think this might mean that George and Mary 

might have been twins.

The highlight of our study of the history of 

Warren was our bus tour with Mr. Beecher 

Perkins. The following information will tell what 

we learned on the tour. 

Mr. Beecher Perkins has done this bus tour for 

many years and we were very fortunate to 

have him again.

This is one of the carriage stones outside the 

church. In the olden days women wore long 

dresses to church. When they arrived in their 

horse drawn carriages, they needed something 

to step onto, because the ground was muddy 

and they didn't want to get their dresses dirty. 

There used to be two carriage stones at the 

church. One was for the south side of town, 

and one was for the north side of town. The 

north stone was moved next to the Parish Hall, 

and the south stone still remains. 

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