First Schoolhouse, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Photograph depicting the exterior of the first school building in Waterloo built in 1820.
- Notes
- After 1842 building was moved to King Street West near Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School (KCI), where the family of Levi and Margaret Carroll lived in it until Margaret's death in 1891. The Waterloo Park Board purchased it in 1894, moved it to Waterloo Park where it was restored.
Sign above door reads; "First School House in Waterloo. Built 1820".
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1900]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1900]
- Dimensions
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Width: 25 cm
Height: 20 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 25cm
Image Height: 20cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Z-2-3; Negative No. 136
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467513 Longitude: -80.530107
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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
