
This one-room clapboard school on a stone foundation has a vestibule, cupola, and “boys” and “girls” outhouses affixed to the rear. Thirty-two years after closing in 1958, the school was acquired and restored by the Summit Historical Society. Inside is a wain-scoted classroom with blackboards, desks, vintage texts, and a 1958 Dupont Explosives wall calendar. Montezuma used the school as a polling place, wedding and dance hall, and town center. Verna Sharp, the last schoolmarm to preside on the elevated teacher's platform, authored a history of the community and its environs.