Oak Leaf School House Traditional Cache
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This cache is dedicated to the memory of my Mother, who died here on February 18, 2009 at the age of 64 years, 10 months, 24 days. My Dad, Brother, and I were with her as she went to be with God.
She wrote the cache description below for me.
She truly loved this home.
Welcome to Oak Leaf School House.
This is a historic landmark in the area. The land was first donated for a school in 1878. After several wood frame school houses burned (arson by some young people who disliked school, they suspected), the superintendent of Oak Leaf School District # 44, decided to build a rock two room school house in 1936.
With the help of the National Youth Administration, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's alphabet agencies, the school was constructed. First, the schoolhouse was bricked then rock from the surrounding area was added to the outside. Very little wood was used in the contruction of the building. The NYA built the rock courthouse at Mountain View Arkansas as well and their sign is almost identical to the one inside the Schoolhouse now. The concrete sign on the gate post was added by the WPA when they built the rock wall around the 3 acres.
School was held here for only two years then the district consolidated with Sloan-Hendrix at Imboden. The house sat empty for about twenty years with the school equipment still in the house then it was sold and Oak Leaf became a home. One of the owners ran an ice delivery business and he built a large rock container for ice storage on the northern front of the house. In it's current state, the house is quite unique with each room having a triangular shape. The Spring Jonquil Garden is over a 100 years old and is magnificent with jonquils blooming in the spring.
In 1937 the Works Progress Administration, the WPA, and the ERA, built a rock wall around the three acres; they also made the two rock posts at the entrance. To the left on one rock post is a sign proclaiming that this is Oak Leaf School. The owner prior to the current one added the lion gates. The additions to the back of the house were torn away so the
school could be in its original condition.
Please park at the edge of the road in front of the cache. You have permission to be on property to get the cache. I am the landowner now.
This is a camoflauged plastic peach jar that will hold small travel bugs and the log.
BYOP
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