Historic Hamilton: Mohawk Trail Museum School Traditional Cache
carnigrewal: Apparently, the school is to be moved to another site so this cache will need to be archived. Thanks to all of the visitors. Also, thanks to Spike64 for retrieving the container.
Carni
Historic Hamilton: Mohawk Trail Museum School
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Historic Hamilton: Mohawk Trail School Museum
Historic Hamilton will be a series of caches that serve to bring cachers to historic places in and around the City of Hamilton. These caches can be placed by anyone, and are not limited to one CO. If you know of a historic place that you would like to bring people to, feel free to add it to the series!
Cache is a camo'd matchstick container that contains only a log. Please bring your own writing instrument to sign, and re-hide and cover the cache so that it cannot be seen. Parking is available street side on West 15th.
The old Mohawk Trail School is a prime example of a nineteenth century one-room Ontario schoolhouse. The school began life as S.S. # 5 Barton, built in 1882. It continued in operation serving area students in Hamilton classroom until as recently as 1966. A newer school called Mohawk Trail School was built beside the
one-room structure in the 1950s. That school has since been demolished and replaced by housing. In 1967, the "official" organization of Hamilton's public elementary teachers, the Hamilton Teachers Council,
undertook to renovate the old school, now also called
Mohawk Trail. For many years thereafter, the restored schoolhouse, located on Mohawk Road W. at W. 16th Street in Hamilton, served as a location for area primary and junior students to visit and to learn about education from another era. The school, is a museum today under the auspices of the Educational Archives and Heritage Centre and is maintained, in coordination with the HWDSB, by volunteers.
Congratulations to Foam Follower on the FTF!
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