A crowd gathered in Pittsford on this day in 1911. They were sitting on Henry Lothrop’s land, near St. Alphonsus Cemetery, watching the cornerstone being placed for a new high school.

Henry Lothrop donated the land on Route 7, and the school was named Lothrop High School in his honor. The new school was a three-story brick building, lined with windows. Thirteen years later, Pittsford Town Hall would be built just in front of the school.

As school enrollment grew, an addition was made to the building in 1960. The Lothrop campus is now an Elementary school, and includes the old town hall as part of the school.

The Vermont Book Of Days photo.

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