Historical School Series-Lakeview Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/26/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A nano in lieu of a Virtual.

The actual school is a block to the southwest.

Idaho Geocachers



In 1890, the first school building was erected on the present site. (see additional coords) It was a four room brick building.


This was a most unpopular location "way out in the country". The November 23 Idaho Statesman in "Nampa Notes" stated in part: "It takes a field glass to see the new school house from the depot. By some hocus pocus it is being built towards Boise. Children will have to cross the railroad tracks, cross Indian Creek, and ascend quite a hill. What's the matter with the school board?" While it was being built, children were warned not to go near it because of rattlesnakes.
There were so many unpaid bills the contractor locked up the school and refused to deliver the keys, and when the brick school finally did open in the fall of 1892, only two downstairs rooms were finished. It was first called Nampa School, later renamed Lakeview because of Lake Ethel, the reservoir formed for irrigation purposes. Today, Lake Ethel is the beautifully landscaped bowl of Lakeview Park. The earliest records in possession of the District indicate that a vote was held on May 17, 1898 to determine the question whether or not said District No 37 be established an Independent School District. Election results were 55 “Yes” and 2 “No” votes. It would be known as Independent School District No. 37, Canyon County, Idaho.
The sagebrush around the school was so tall that girls built playhouses in it and only the tops of their heads were visible. In spring, they gathered bouquets of beautiful wild flowers. Each room had a big pot bellied stove. When the stoves smoked, school was dismissed while the stove pipes and chimneys were cleaned. Before recess, each teacher sent a pupil out to the pump for a bucket of water. It was passed up and down the aisles so each child could drink out of the common tin dipper. A bridge was built across Indian Creek for the children. Many found it more exciting to use a long ladder someone laid across the creek, stepping from rung to rung above the swirling water.
On May 25, 1900, the first 8th grade graduation exercises were held for 5 boys and 7 girls who had passed the required county exams.
In 1906 they voted to build a new school. Legal disagreements and other problems delayed construction, so classes were held in the old building while the new one was built in front of it. When nearly completed in May, it was discovered that there was no place for the bell! The board authorized $175 for a belfry above the front door. The new Lakeview was declared the "finest school building in Idaho." The old building was torn down. New wings were added to the school in 1929 and 1936. Prior to the construction of these new wings, wooden bungalows were used.


By the turn of the century, Lakeview was jammed with pupils. In 1900, the trustees purchased for $450 a block west of town. A school was built way out in the sagebrush (the present 12th Avenue block between 5th and 6th Streets where Home Federal is located.)
Just after the school's centennial celebration, it was condemned as a school and sold to the First Mennonite Church. In 2008 the building was refurbished, and is now being used by the Idaho Arts Charter School.
*Information was obtained from Nampa Public Schools website and Old Country Schools of Canyon County by Corinne Moyers

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Znl unir gb fgergpu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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