As Peterborough ’’First Citizen’' Mrs. Edward MacDowell – Marian MacDowell, as the modern Ledger-Transcript would refer to her today – celebrated the opening of the dam named for her late husband, the Aug. 3, 1950, Peterborough Transcript also reported that Rindge took a stop toward bringing the era of the one-room schoolhouse to an end.

Rindge was home to the last one-room schoolhouses in the area, but David W. Davison of Manchester received the contract to buil a new consolidated school with a revised bid of $93,278.

The new school, scheduled to have four classrooms and house the first eight grades, was set to be done the next spring and called Rindge Memorial School.