The Farmington School chapter: From the book written by Hattie Adams Anderson

Ground had been given for a school, so eventually a two story house was built on Doughty Road. The room on the top floor was used as a store room for books and other supplies, the ground floor for the school room. A large cupola on the roof housed the big bell. A rope from it hung down through an opening on the ceiling of the main room so the bell could be rung from below. It rang out 15 minutes before 9 AM and again at 9 sharp every morning, and 15 minutes before 1 PM and again at 1 o’clock. There was a 15 minute recess every morning, and afternoon and 1 hr. noontime. Sometimes the bell turned over, then two boys were sent aloft to the belfry to turn it back again and they thought it great fun......