School House & Jail House

 

The old School House in Waterford is a one-room building where the first school in the village was established in 1867.

Although it was not open to visitors, we were able to peer through the windows to see inside.

 

Twin desks, complete with reading books were set out as if for a lesson.  

 

On the blackboard the date - February 11th 1880, the name of the teacher and of the president and a motto 'Beautiful hands are they that do deeds that are noble, good and true'.

 

Also in Waterford we saw another one-room building - although considerably smaller than the school.  This was the jail - apparently in use (hopefully only occasionally) until 1936.

 

Outside was this old pump - presumably once supplying the water for the village..