The Parkerville Schoolhouse, was built in 1880 and is a "typical one-room, one-teacher school. Here, the older pupils shared the same desk, a two-seater settee. The teacher's desk sat atop the raised platform between the front doors. The platform remains, as do the two outside doors, one of which still leads to the former boys' entryway where coats and wraps were traditionally hung. The girls' four-seater outhouse remains intact." Now preserved by the Friends of the Parkerville Schoolhouse each year Westford 3rd-grade students spend a day in period dress at the school.
Parkerville School class photo from about 1913
Parking is available at the schoolhouse but please be careful exiting the lot especially if you are turning left. It is also possible to turn right and take the next left around the large triangle of land to return to Carlisle Road.
This cache was placed as part of the Westford Museum & Historical Society's Parkerville Tour. Parkerville (also called Parker Village) was developed in the Colonial Period as a farming neighborhood and settled in part by members of the Parker family who came from Westford’s parent town of Chelmsford. The Parker Village Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.