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If you were driving along Otter Street in Bristol Borough, it wouldn’t be surprising that one would pass the plain-looking building in the 100 block of Otter Street without looking twice.
But starting this week, the building that presently is a warehouse for Harris Comfort is going to be a bit harder to miss.
Civic group Bristol Borough: Raising the Bar unveiled a new mural outside the building Wednesday morning.
With a healthy-sized crowd gathered outside the building that features the three-story circa-1851 schoolhouse nestle into it, Raising the Bar President Bill Pezza showed off the borough’s newest piece of public art.
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Harold Mitchener, a historian from the Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation, grew up right around the corner from the building. He highlighted the history of the school that often is passed by.
Historian Harold Mitchener.
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The gothic-style structure replaced a school on Wood Street in the 1850s. The new building served as a school for borough kids through the 1880s and was sold to the Mohican tribe when a new school on Bath Street opened. The former school was then named Mohican Hall. It held gatherings and was even used as a late 1880s roller-skating hall during a spike in the activity’s popularity.
A photo of the school from a 1911 book.
According to Doron Green’s book The History of Bristol Borough, the site where the school…