Garfield School

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The District #2 Schoolhouse, known locally as the Garfield School and also known as Brunswick District No. 2 School, located in Brunswick, New York, United States, is a two-room schoolhouse built and opened in 1881. It hosted local students until the consolidation of Brunswick (Brittonkill) Central School District in the mid-1950s.”
Wikipedia article Garfield School (Brunswick, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 128 National Register listings published here for Rensselaer County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1881.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 2 and Moonlawn Rd., Eagle Mills, 12180
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. building
Town. Brunswick town
When was it built? 1881
National Register reference number. 88000717 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

732 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 732 fires within 5 miles of Garfield School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 598 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 159 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	384
Arson/incendiarism	159
Debris and open burning	83
Natural	42
Smoking	30
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Garfield School: 7 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Troy Plant	Perlite	Plant
Campbell Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Campbell Mountain Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quackenkill Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
Quackenkill Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Troy Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
Troy Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cranston Leveling Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cranston Leveling Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eagle Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Mills, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Flash Flood	Eagle Mills	$500,000	There were several reports of roads flooded or washed out in the Eagle Mills area, including Garfield Road, Creek Road, and Dater Hill Road.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Mills	$21,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Mills	$5,000	no account filed
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Mills	-	Trees were downed.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Mills	-	A pole was downed across Brunswick Road.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Mills	-	A tree and wire were reported down in Eagle Mills due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1893 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Averill Park quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
District No. 6 Schoolhouse	1.9 miles	2008
Marsh-Link-Pollock Farm	2.5 miles	2014
Emma Willard School	3.4 miles	1979
Chapel and Cultural Center	3.7 miles	2011
Henry Koon House	3.8 miles	1997
Thomas S. Fagan & Mary Kate Fagan House	3.8 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rensselaer County	All 128 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.