EXPLORE LAGOON: PIONEER VILLAGE TOUR: School House

 

SCHOOL HOUSE

Drawings from modern students have been placed on the desks. In the past, raccoons have made their home in the attic of this building.

 

"This one-room log school house was built in 1870. It was constructed of 'squared-off' pine logs cut in the mountains surrounding the pioneer settlement of Rockport, Utah. It is a fine example from the middle and late 1800s of schools located in the outlying communities. The children studied by kerosene lamps and huddled around the pot-bellied stove in the cold weather. The heat would never reach far enough to warm the room adequately. The building was also used as a meeting house by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until the settlers could afford to build a church. The town of Rockport was flooded by the Wanship Dam in 1957."

 

NEXT STOP: Wanship Cabin

 

 

SOURCES

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Deseret News

 

Updated 25 Aug 2007