- CA BWGPL LHC-Schoo-2019-07-23-02
- Item
- c.1890s
Part of Local History Collection
Photograph of Pinkerton Schoolhouse students. Exact date of photograph unknown.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of Local History Collection
Photograph of Pinkerton Schoolhouse students. Exact date of photograph unknown.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
S.S. #11, Pinkerton School
This school was named after surveyor and settler Matthew Pinkerton. He built the log schoolhouse in 1840 on the NE corner of his lot (Con. 10, lot 6). A new, brick school was built in 1873 kitty-corner to the old one by Thomas Sleight, and was the first of its kind in the area. By 1908, a better brick school was built with two entrances and a bell tower, the one seen in the photograph. The school was in use at least until the late 1950s.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library