School Picnic, Summer 2004 cover of the RecordSchool’s Out! This truck was packed with students who traveled from the Caywood School to Taughannock State Park for a school picnic on June 16, 1939. The one-room 24’ x 40’ wooden schoolhouse, still standing on County Rt. 137, operated for 114 years, and was “the last of its type in South Seneca County,” according to a Geneva Times article by Elizabeth McElroy, dated June 18, 1959. The school closed at that time, and its students joined the Ovid Central District. Ten area children attended the school – at a cost of $5500 – in the year of its closure. A vote taken at a regular school meeting was close, with 18 in favor of consolidation with the Ovid district, and 17 in favor of keeping the little school . Caywood district trustee George Green reported that as many of 60 students were taught there in one year, 70 years before it closed.