BOZRAH, Conn. (WFSB) - The oldest school in Connecticut opened in 1855 and has stayed open every year since.

The Fitchville Primary and Grammar School was a small schoolhouse in Bozrah at a time when Franklin Pierce was president and cars hadn’t been invented yet.

Now Fields Memorial School, the kindergarten through 8th grade school is the longest continuously operating school in Connecticut.

“It’s really cool how it’s still here and it’s not broken down or anything,” said Nolan Payne, 5th Grader at Fields Memorial School.

Bozrah First Selectman Glenn Pianka is a graduate, arriving as a kindergartner in 1962.

At that time, the school was already over 100 years old.

One of his third grade projects still hangs on the wall today.

“This is a drawing of the floor plan of the school in 19

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