Founder of Rotary international in this brick building. Constructed by his great grandfather in 1818. Paul P. Harris attended school as a youth and received his elementary education many years later. Mt. Harris expressed the conviction that it was during his boyhood in Wallingford that he learned the basic ideals which became the cornerstone of Rotary International destined to become a world-wide service organization. This former schoolhouse is now maintained as a memorial to Paul P. Harris by Wallingford Rotary |