Belknap School (also known as the District No. 8 School House) is a historic former school house at 509 Greenville Avenue in the Belknap village of

Johnston, Rhode Island Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 29,568 at the 2020 census. Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House (1691), a stone-ender museum, and the only landfill in Rhode Island. Incorpo ...

. The first school on the site was built in 1790 and was the first school in the town when it was founded. The current school building was built on the same site in 1892 and was used as a school until 1938. It was used as an American Legion building from the late 1940s until 1998. In 2002 the building was acquired by the Johnston Historical Society. The building was added to the

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in 2010.Belknap School Student Returns Seventy Years Later by Beth Hurd, February 16, 2006, issue of the Johnston Sunrise http://www.quahog.org/cscm/jhs/history/20060216_hurd_belknap.html

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Former school buildings in the United States Buildings and structures in Johnston, Rhode Island School buildings completed in 1892 School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Victorian architecture in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island {{ProvidenceCountyRI-NRHP-stub

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