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Cover Photo: The Class of Two Thousand In an historic moment, the Class of 2000, Mashpee High School's first graduating class, poses in front of the South Mashpee School. We give special thanks to them for their coop- eration and consideration throughout their four years of firsts. History of the South Mashpee School/Ockway Chapel The state provided $400 to build two schools in Mashpee in 1831. As a result, the North Mashpee School which no longer exists, and the South Mashpee School were built. The South Mashpee School stood on the southwest corner where today's Great Oak and Red Brook Roads meet. It was used as meeting place as well as a school. Blind Joe Amos, a prominent figure in Mashpee's history, preached there, as did William Apess, a Pequot Indian adopted by the Mashpee Wampanoags. Used as a school until 1900, the building was purchased by the Young People's Baptist Society the following year, and was used for religious services. It was then referred to as the Ockway Chapel. In 1953, it was sold to Fields Point Mfg. Co, and was donated by the New Seabury company to the Town of Mashpee as part of its Bicentennial celebration, and was moved to where it currently stands on Meeting House Road adjacent to the Old Indian Meeting House. The South Mashpee/Ockway Chapel was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The Old Schoolhouse has captured the heart of the Mashpee Women's Club whose goal is to increase the awareness of this historic treasure, and to seek funds to help pay for the renovation of this venerable building in the spirit of a community wide effort. I l� !I Photographs and captions provided by the Mashpee Historical Commission with special thanks to Janice Walford of the Mashpee Enterprise.