District School No. 9
9, sometimes referred to as the Old Stone Schoolhouse, is located on NY 17A 1.4 mile (2.3 km) south of Goshen, New York.[2] Legend has it that, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was riding by on a trip from nearby Florida to his headquarters at Newburgh, and stopped briefly at the school to talk to the children.[1] It is maintained today by the Minisink Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which met there for a while, but only in the summers because the building had no heat or water.The DAR could not afford to maintain it, and by 2010 the roof was in danger of collapsing, with only a blue tarp protecting the interior.After that, a historic preservationist discovered that the building's pine flooring was sitting directly on the underlying dirt, creating a serious drainage issue.