Study Notes - the old North Gower schools
In 1849, nine school sections were established in North
Gower Township, with a School Committee member
named for each of the sections. The members of the inaugural
Committee were Joseph Hicks, John Campbell, John Eastman,
Thomas Craig, Gilbert Thompson, Alexander Bromley, William
Dilworth, James Kennedy, and A. Wilson.
Carsonby: A Community History gives an historical
account of S.S. #6, the section for the Village of North Gower.
Some highlights:
- The first school was built about 1830. It was a
small square log structure. It was abandoned between
1850 and 1855.
- The next school was a one-storey frame building. It
burned in February 1869.
- Mr. A.J. Eastman was contracted for $745 to build a replacement.
- A fourth, and larger, school was built on the grounds
in 1890. It was a one-room brick building.
- In 1905 the Continuation School was built at the site
of Perkins Lumber. The building was abandoned in
1912 was was sold to Mr. R.A. Craig at auction for one
hundred dollars. He later re-sold it and kept the bell.
- In 1912 the four-room cement block school was built near
the present bowling alley. The Nursery School first began
using a room in the school in 1952.
- The Township School Area was formed in 1946. The High
School Board rented two rooms of the school until 1952.
- The Continuation School continued until December, 1947,
when the South Carleton High School Board was formed.
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