The Feura Bush Neighborhood Library is located at 1431 Indian Fields Rd. in the hamlet of Feura Bush. It is housed in the old school house behind the Jerusalem Reformed Church. Its hours are: Tuesday 7 to 9 PM, Thursday 3 to 5 PM and Saturday 2 to 4 PM. If you would like to volunteer, donate books or inquire about a book we might own, contact the Librarian, Judith Wing, by phone at 439-2948 or e-mail
fblib@nycap.rr.com.
Wireless Internet access available at Feura Bush Library
The Feura Bush Library has installed a wireless router to give access to the internet for laptop computers. This is an unsecured network and is available 24 hrs per day (within approximately a 100 foot radius of the building. The network name is FBLibrary.
Feura Bush School House History
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
On January 3, 1885, at the cost of $1,100, a new schoolhouse was dedicated. It was located behind the Jerusalem Reformed Church and contained one room. There is a contract in the possession of the Jerusalem Reformed Church made between their consistory and School District No. 5 of the Towns of New Scotland and Bethlehem, leasing the school building to that district from September, 1905, to September of 1925. One resident remembers that there were two teachers teaching simultaneously in the one room. Grades one through eight were partitioned into two divisions, one for each teacher. These teachers often roomed with the people in Feura Bush. The school was very cold in winter. There was one stove and the students would pull their benches up around it, keeping their coats on until noon. In bad snowstorms, the students got to school by horse-drawn sleigh. This building was used as a school until a newer building was constructed in the late 1920s. The old school house currently houses the Feura Bush Neighborhood Library.
Trustees
Shirley Dearstyne, Scott Houghtaling, Roberta Jeracka, Matt and Sandy Murphy, Kemp Smith, and Judith Wing.
Library History
FEURA BUSH NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY
In 1983, two years after the founding of the Feura Bush Neighborhood Association, it was suggested they sponsor a library. Inquiries were made if there might be room in the Onesquethaw Volunteer Fire House to place bookcases around the walls. They agreed and bookcases were installed. Donations of used books began to arrive at the new library. Bylaws were written and approved by the Neighborhood Association board. Five Trustees were asked to serve. After about a year at the fire house, the library was asked to move and quarters were found in the school house behind the Jerusalem Reformed Church. The church permitted the library to use the building in exchange for upkeep on the building.