 Alton and Laurette Barteaux, who lived beside the school, bought the building and all its contents when it closed in 1963.They established a private museum named the Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum.As the school’s contents were never dispersed, the Barteaux family was able to preserve all the books, desks, maps and fittings of 124 years of schooling including school registers dating back to 1894.