First School, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Exterior of the first school house in Waterloo built in 1820, inside Waterloo Park. Plaque above the door reads; "First School House in Waterloo. Built 1820". Note the "Indian Stone" with plaque presented to the park by J.G. Stroh in 1918. The stone was found on the site of native village Suraras Springs on Huron Road, two miles south of Manneheim.
- 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.
- Date of Original
- [ca. 195-]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 195-]
- 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
- See Kitchener Public Library
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467513 Longitude: -80.530107
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- Copyright Statement
- Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
