The first school in Bloomfield was located in the Methodist Church until 1853 when Solomon G. Kitchin, Orson Bartlett, Henry Miller, D.B. Miller, and Michael Wilson formed the Bloomfield Educational Society. Education halted during most of the war but started back up as a private school until 1871 when the public school system was established. In 1886 a frame house was constructed for $3,000.
Frame house school built in 1886, it stood until the brick school was constructed in 1912.
In 1912 Bloomfield reported that it had a total of 411 students enrolled.
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Image is looking east along Highway J (known locally back then as the Greenville Road).
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