GC233WF Sunflower School (Traditional Cache) in Utah, United States created by ciccione

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A cache by ciccione Message this owner

Hidden : 1/18/2010

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Ammo can placed 5 feet from the road. No need to cross the fence. Please be generous in trading to keep it fun for the kids!

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The following information was taken from here and was published by Cleone W. Tolbert (former student of the school)

Sunflower is located thirteen miles northwest of Delta. The land in this area was sold by developers early in the nineteen hundreds. Early settlers from Kansas named the area after their native flower, the Sunflower. In 1916-17 the schoolhouse was built. It also was given the name Sunflower.

What a beautiful building! It was painted white and had concrete steps in the front. At the entrance was a small cloak room, and a room that was used for a library. One large room seated all the students, grades one through eight. Tall windows lined the north wall. Rows of desks fastened to runners so they wouldn’t slide around so much, faced the long blackboard and the teacher’s desk at the east end of the room. The desks were provided with ink wells. Every now and then some “innocent-faced” boy would tint the long braids of a girl’s hair in the ink well. This would cause quite a commotion. The teacher would bang her long ruler on the desk to try to restore order once again. On the teacher’s desk was a small copper-colored bell. The students anxiously awaited their turns to ring the bell loud and long.

At the rear of the room, a potbellied stove took up its share of space. In cold weather students huddled around it only to roast on one side and freeze on the other. A bucket of coal was nearby. Every time the fire was replenished, billows of black smoke filled the room. On a small table in the corner was a bucket of water with a long handled dipper. Everyone could have a swallow or two from the dipper. In later years the bucket was replaced by a fountain and paper cups. This was a luxury.

In the yard was a small flowing well, a few tying posts for horses, “His and Hers” outhouses and a coal shed. Ante-I-Over the coal shed was a favorite game played at recess and noon. Other games were Run Sheepie Run, Hop Scotch, Steal Sticks and Dare Base. In winter Fox and Geese or just plain snowball fights were always exciting. The game Jacks (using rocks for jacks) was often played close by the potbellied stove. It wasn’t an easy job to be the teacher in a one room school house. Some grades would have only one student while others had several or none. Older students often helped the teacher with the younger students. It is said that at one time fifty-nine students were enrolled at Sunflower, but most years the enrollment was much less.

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