WGD 2013 - Rockawalkin School Traditional Geocache

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SirCrab: Unfortunately the owner did not respond to the previous note so this is being archived. Should the owner decide to repair/replace this and have it unarchived, it can be done as long as it still conforms to the guidelines.

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Hidden : 4/20/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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CACHE DETAILS:

You are looking for a reguar size Lock&Lock at the Rockawalkin School.

Please park on the edge of the grass along Ellegood St.

The Rockawalkin School will be open on June 8th.....so please take a few minutes to visit the school and get a glimpse of the past!!!

HISTORICAL COMMENTS (from an article by George Chevallier)

We have in Salisbury a gem of history in the Rockawalkin School. It sits on the corner of Pemberton Drive and Ellegood Street at the Pemberton Elementary School. It originally sat on the northeast corner of Route 349 (Nanticoke Road) and Rockawalkin Road. The original piece of land for it was bought in 1869 from Ann and Christopher Columbus Fooks and Hugh Ellingsworth. The school was built about three years later for the community of Rockawalkin. It housed children in grades one through seven.

The inside of the school house is as close to a 19th Century one-room school house as you can get. The teacher’s desk, the pot-bellied stove with its accompanying coal bucket, the small to mid-sized desks with their period ink wells and the books are all reminiscent of a time long ago. There are many things on display that would have been used by the children of a long ago era. The crayons, pencil boxes, individual slate boards remind us that things were not always as easy as they are now. The pull down map in the front of the classroom shows the world prior to the First World War.
It really takes you back in time just to be in the school house.

Most of the children walked to and from school. The maintenance of the school was the responsibility of the only teacher in the school. She had one of the larger boys come in early in the winter to fire up the coal stove, and other children stayed after school to sweep up and clean the blackboards. The coal stove was also used at lunch to heat up soup or chocolate to go along with whatever else the children brought from home.

It hasn’t been used as a school since June, 1938 and was moved to its present location in 1973.

The Rockawalkin School is owned by the Wicomico Historical Society, and the maintenance is furnished by the Board of Education. Extensive upkeep is required to maintain such an historic structure and it has recently had new windows installed, been painted, had ventilation windows installed in the foundation, a floor installed in the back room and an application of boiled linseed oil applied to the cedar shingles on the roof to make them lie flat.

Would you or your group like to see it? Call George Chevallier at (410) 749-1021, and he will be more than glad to show it to you.

This Cache Is Part Of The 2013 Wicomico Geocache Dash

The 2013 Wicomico Geocache Dash is a virtual trail that takes cachers to 20 sites located throughout Wicomico County. The locations feature Wicomico's "Hidden Treasures" - parks, museums, historical buildings, and waterways.

Thanks to the Wicomico Historical Society for permission to place this cache.

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