NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. that Ward Acres used to be owned by the Ward Family?
The Wards also had the Ward Baking Company.
In 1956, the City of New Rochelle School District received 13.3 acres of the familys farm for a new elementary school in what is now William B. Ward Elementary School in order to help with the financial hardships and other items in providing adequate education facilities at the time. This also included a 60-foot strip of land to extend Broadfield Road.
The Board of Education then authorized $1,865,000 in serial bonds in July 1957, to build the current school on the Ward site.
William B. Ward Elementary School has had four principals since its September 1959 opening.
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