Don't Be Tardy!! Traditional Geocache

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Keystone: As there's been no response to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.

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Hidden : 5/19/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This was cache #2 on the NWOGEO Poker Run.

In 1972, Findlay, Ohio’s Hancock Historical Museum was given a former Marion Township Schoolhouse by the Wisely family, on whose farm it sat, and for whose farm it acted as a granary for almost 40 years after it and five other rural schools in the township closed their doors. The Hancock County Retired Teachers Association took on the task of restoring the brick schoolhouse, a mammoth undertaking that wrapped up in a year. “They were really into it,” museum director Sue Tucker says. “They had a mission.” Now tourists and history buffs can visit the schoolhouse, and third-graders from across the county come to experience a traditional one-room school day. Boys don suspenders, and girls disguise their jeans with aprons. They enter the schoolhouse through separate doors, and take their seats facing portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln behind the teacher’s desk, which stands near the pot-bellied stove. Built in 1882, this school has seen generations of children writing in copybooks and practicing elocution, battling it out in spell-downs and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. ( an excert from The One-Room Schoolhouse by Elisabeth Deffner - please visit http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20031026/20031026_3434.asp website for additional information on the One-Room Schoolhouses.


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