The following is from the Images of America Burlington book written by Robert J. Costa. This is a really fun book with lots of old photos.
"According to John Goff's Historic Preservation Survey of Burlington, the West School is historically significant as a rare, Federal-period one-room schoolhouse. Originally built in the area of Simonds Park in 1794, it was called the Center School. Sometime between 1830 and 1840, the building was moved to the Havenville section of Burlington, which was then a separate village with a leather shop, post office and small residences. The birth of the Burlington Historical Society occurred over the struggle to preserve this building in 1964. Then used as a garage, the building was one of four constructed in various parts of Burlington (Woburn's Second Parish) in 1794. Targeted for demolition in the 1960s, the school was saved by a group of historically minded citizens. Today it is a town museum operated by the Burlington Historical Commission."
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