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WILSON SCHOOL
Even though the school building is gone , the history will live on forever!
Southern Door School District No. 3 (Township of Nasewaupee) YEARS ACTIVE: 1896 - 1960
OLD SCHOOL-History Lesson
Wilson School was located at the corner of County S. and Wilson Road. The building was a one room brick schoolhouse with 6 tall windows on either side. The school had a small kitchen with a water bubbler, coatroom, a large entry and an attached wooden woodshed. Wilson School was originally called Weyer School. The school fell into disrepair and was torn down in 2001 and replaced by a building owned by Bagnall Plumbing & Heating
WILSON SCHOOL MEMORIES
Mary Ellen Phillips-Bagnall (Teacher 1954-1955) recalls shoveling, sweeping and washing blackboards herself. There were still no busses at that time, all the kids walked to school. Grades 1 through 8 were taught here.
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Wilson School was built in 1896 on the corner of the Knuth farm. One of the teachers was very accurate with a piece of chalk. When he heard whispering behind his back as he was at the blackboard, he spun around and off went the chalk, hitting the deserving offender. The boys who would agitate the teachers, particularly the men teachers were given a whipping, but some had time to pad there pants with books to lessen the sting. Some were very good jumpers and tried jumping higher than the whip. Travel back and forth to school was mostly by foot, in the winter farmers would hook up a team of horses and a sleigh to get the children to and from school. The children were allowed to bring cocoa, soup or anything that needed to be warmed up and it would be placed in the humidifier of the big round furnace in the back corner so they could have a warm meal at noon. The facilities were of the two hole version out behind the school and were not heated so the paper work would surely have been done very quickly.
(Be nice to the nerds and geeks in school… you'll be working for them in the future.)
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