Public School 28, April 26, 1928. The land on which the original Public School 28 sat (at Richmond Hill Road and Old Mill Road) was part of Staten Island's second oldest settlement, the Waldensian community. The land once housed the island's first court house, jail, church, and whipping post (those accused of witchcraft were said to have been punished there). Following the consolidation of the Greater New York City and the population boom that followed, the old school house was overcrowded and deteriorating. A new structure was planned on a nearby empty lot. The new Public School 28 was completed in 1908 and still stands at Center Street at the corner of St. Patrick's Place (where it is a part of the Historic Richmondtown cultural complex). It is unknown when this original school was demolished.