Sol Archive Mysteries · Finding #1180
An equipped Tonawanda manual-labor school reportedly stood idle for fifteen years
Ames 1869 described a plan ($3,000 + 80 acres + $3,000 state match). Jackson 1887 reported $6,100 tribal + $5,500 state spent on eighty acres, buildings, furniture, teams, and implements — yet “the building stood idle, unoccupied, and decaying for fifteen years” because instructor/operating funds never materialized. Distinct from reservation day schools. 1887 sale authorization ≠ completed sale.
The agents’ reports trace a school plan to a reported equipped building and operated farm, but not to a functioning instructional institution. Jackson’s $6,100+$5,500 retrospective totals are a different-stage description from the 1869 $3,000+$3,000 plan — not an automatically reconciled ledger. Day schools on the reservation are separately attested and must not be collapsed into this boarding/manual-labor project.
Distinct from #1178 (50→80 acres petition/legislation accounts) and #1172 ($2k permanent fund vs school petition). Sources: finding repo · Sol Archive.
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