Little Stone School SCAR09 Traditional Geocache
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Little Stone School SCAR09
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This is a small camouflaged lock n lock type cache. This cache is for the SCAR event, and should not be sought out until after 5:30pm on May 29th and any logs before that will be deleted.
Located on the University of Saskatchewan Campus, the Little Stone School House was officially designated heritage property on May 17, 1982.
The Little Stone School, originally built near the present-day Five Corners at the top of Broadway Bridge, was the heart of the growing young community of Nutana. Its builder was Alexander “Sandy” Marr, whose family had come to the West with the Temperance Colony. Constructed in 1887 of prairie fieldstone collected by the settlers, the sturdy school added an air of permanence to the scattered collection of wooden buildings forming the hamlet. In its day, the school served as a meeting-house, election centre and dance hall, even if the legs of the piano had to be removed to get it through the schoolhouse door! The school is the only stone building built by Marr that still exists in Saskatoon.
The Little Stone School remains one of City’s fondest heritage properties. In 1911, it was preserved by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I. O. D. E.). Each stone of the school was numbered and the building reconstructed at its present location on the U of S campus. Visits to the Little Stone School for “reading, writing and arithmetic” are possible through University of Saskatchewan tours.
Tip o' the Hat to Firesong and Team kavanagh for the FTF!
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