Bridgewater School - Actinolite, Ontario
N 44° 32.588 W 077° 19.468
18T E 315345 N 4934828
A former one-room school house made of limestone that can be found in Actinolite, formerly known as Bridgewater. A town that had more people in it in the 1850s than now.
Waymark Code: WMK3DB
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 02/07/2014
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A former one-room school house made of limestone that can be found in Actinolite, formerly known as Bridgewater. A town that had more people in it in the 1850s than now.
Actinolite was founded in 1852 when Billa Flint purchased land at a site suitable for a sawmill on the Skootamatta River and established a community called Troy, renamed Bridgewater in 1859. The
settlement grew with the founding of grist mills and eventually had a woolen mill, a tannery, several factories, this school and a marble church, now an arts centre.
The building is now home to the Actinolite Community Centre.
Original or Re-creation?: Original
Year the school first opened.: 01/01/1861
Is the schoolhouse still open as a school?: no
Address:
Bridgewater Road
Actinolite, Ontario Canada
Does the school offer 19th century classroom reenactments or day camps?: no
Year the school closed.: Not listed
Web Address (if available): Not listed
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