[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The many hundreds of gentlemen and ladies who have received their academical education in our village, and who are scattered throughout our land, will look back to old Sing Sing with pleasant remembrances, and will continue to replenish its schools with their own sons and daughters, as they already have done in many instances. A brief notice of each of these schools will now be given. Tin: Public or Free-Schools. — Before the year 1857, the two public-school buildings then in use in Sing Sing, were wretched little houses, each contain-ing two small rooms, one for males the other for females One house was located in Spring Street, where G. W. & S. C. Kipp's furniture store-house now stands; the other, built about the year 1840, was on Water Street, opposite, and a little north of Blakeslee's foundry. In 1857 the main portion of the commodious brick edifice on Broadway was erected, and in 1875 a large extension was added to it, thus making it one of the finest public-school buildings in the county. January 12, 1880, a branch school was opened in Broad Avenue, which accommodates about two hundred scholars, under the care of two teachers. Telephonic communication is kept up between the two schools, and both are under the superiutendance of Mr. James Irving Gorton, who has had the gen-eral charge of the public schools of Sing Sing, since January, I860.