Please Join us at
Spring Valley Community Center on May 26th,
2007 at 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM for a Geocache
Container Making Workshop.
Spring Valley School, Spring
Valley Road, 1907-57. This one-room school house, now a community
center, has aged gracefully with many characteristic features in
place including some of the original glass in its wall of windows.
The building was raised above its foundations in the 1930s by the
efforts of the WPA, creating a basement and permanently closing one
of the two entrance doors. They probably once opened into a
"cloakroom" at the rear of the high ceilinged classroom near the
rope which hung from the bell in the tower. A pot-bellied stove sat
near the center of the room and in the front was a stage where
children performed. The school closed a few years after West Salem
schools were incorporated into the Salem School District. The
preservation of this historical building is a credit to the
families of this community and a monument to the generations who
were educated here.
Please
Thank Salmondan for donating this Perfect Place for a Geocache
making Workshop! She will be donating some Raffle Prizes, and will
split the Raffle earnings between Spring Valley Comm. Center and
OregonSAGA.