The PreEmption one-room schoolhouse no longer exists. This schoolhouse served the PreEmption area for several generations until its closing in 1944. The first year it opened in 1840, Gordon Granger taught at this school. He would go on to become a famous Civil War General and hero (the Savior of Chickamauga) as well as the founder of the Juneteenth celebration which is the oldest known celebration of slavery's demise in the country.

Read about this remarkable man: http://townofsodushistoricalsociety.org/2017/04/general-gordon-granger/

After 1944, the building was moved and the school left the Town of Sodus School District and became part of the Rose School system.

District #16 Preemption
Was at 5119 Preemption Road
North Rose, NY

Teachers

1840-date school opened
1840-1841 Gordon Granger(later became a General)
1875-1876 Charles Spencer
1876-1877 Charles Spencer
1883-1884 J. W. Tindall and Charity Burghdorf
1884-1885 Charity Burghdorf , J. W. Tindall, Corwin J. Smith, and Mary E. West
1885-1886 Jerome W. Tindall
1891-1892 John Hulsaver
1989-1900 Gertrude Faul
1911-1912 contract district
1913-1914 Marie Hutson
1914-1915 Myrtle Edmonds
1919-1920 Iva Cahoon
1920-1921 Iva Cahoon
1925-1926 Ila V. Seager
1927-1928 Ila Seager
1928-1929 Helen Gallery Smith
1932-1933 Leola Cole Seymore
1933-1934 Leola Cole Seymore
1934-1935 Leola Cole Seymore
1935-1936 Leola Cole Seymore
1936-1937 Leola Seymore
1940-1941 Lucie Heit
1941-1942 Lucie Heit
1942-1943 Lucie Heit
1943-1944 contract with North Rose Central School