Windy Run School Traditional Cache
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This is a quick grab once you find your way back there. Visitors please see note below.
Located in a quiet valley in southeastern Braxton County, it was built in 1889 by a local builder. It measures 24 feet wide by 28 feet long and has side walls with 3 broad windows in each. The transom lighted front door is sheltered beneath a small porch. The lone room, with pump shed attached, is very much as it was when the last classes were held there in 1963. Various size desks, a table with small, cane-bottomed chairs, a blackboard, and framed pictures, remain in the school. The pot-bellied stove is in the center of the room. Two frame, slant-roof toilets stand in the rear corners of the yard. The historical group was formed in late 1995 and have made numerous repairs and restorations. A new split rail fence surrounds the regularly mowed yard and the newly painted school was leveled and stabilized with the roof replaced in 1925. The small picnic shelter now has electric. A new, usable toilet was built, and some drainage installed. Costumed guides conduct hands on tours for school groups and take displays to school and civic events. Memorabilia for display has been collected, community events sponsored, a picture of the first teacher and his class hangs inside the school public & private tours are available by appointment.
The Windy Run School was judged worthy of being listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a plaque was recently placed on the school door. The Windy Run Historical Association is a volunteer organization that has done the restoration and keeps up the grounds. They won the West Virginia Culture & History Award in 1998. The annual Labor Day Sunday Homecoming which was started in 1948 has been revitalized and attendance has increased tremendously.
Come see a small piece of living history.
A few of the locals are aware there is a nearby cache. Obviously labor day weekend is a bad idea.
A note to visitors: Maps and sat view show Polemic Rd going from Old Turnpike (4 1/4 miles from Sutton) all the way to the school. It is not really a road. DO NOT try to drive it unless you have high-clearance 4 wheel drive. Approach from Tesla or Rt. 19.
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