The photograph shows two children in front of Liberty Corner School around 1912. The image is special because we know that the girl is Mary S. Guest (1907-2003) and the boy is her brother, Ernest M. Guest (1905-1986). But what makes the image extraordinary is that Mary was a student at the school and went
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Liberty Corner School 1912
Class photo from Liberty Corner (NJ) School. The flag appears to have 46 stars, which would date the photo to around 1912, the last year that flag was in use. Hazel Bird (b. 1900) is fourth from the left in the back row (with large bow-tie). At that time, most graduates from Liberty Corner who
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This early wood schoolhouse, originally called the Jefferson school, stood on the west side of Lyons Road, north of the triangle in Liberty Corner, NJ. It was built around 1853 to replace an earlier school, which had burned down. The building is clearly marked on a map from the 1873 Beers Atlas of Somerset County
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