First Schoolhouse, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Postcard of exterior of the first schoolhouse in Waterloo in Waterloo Park.
- Notes
- Built in 1820. After 1842 building was moved to King Street West near where Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Grand River Hospital are now. The family of Levi and Margaret Carroll lived in it until 1891. It was purchased by the Waterloo Park Board in 1894, moved to Waterloo Park and is now fully restored.
- Inscriptions
- Printed on front: "The First School House Built in Waterloo 1820".
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1893]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1893]
- Dimensions
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Width: 14 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 14cm
Image Height: 9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- P108
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467668 Longitude: -80.529013
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
