OLD RIBSTONE SCHOOL DISTRICT No.1629

1. Old Ribstone School District was formed in 1909 and was the first
2. organized school in the area. Land, known as the Fortune Quarter, was
3. bought by a bachelor, Murdock Nicholson, and he donated the site for the
4. school. Pupils came from as far as Edgerton.
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6. Situated on NW ¼ 30-42-3 W4, the school wsa name Ribstone after
7. the Ribstone Creek which meandered through the district near the school.
8. Later, when the railroad passed south of the school, the hamlet of
9. Ribstone was established. Another school was built there which they
10. called Ribstone. As a result the first school became known as Old
11. Ribstone.
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13. Mattie White, one of the first students, attended the first year. He and
14. other pupils carried water from the Nicholson yard to water the
15. evergreens which had been planted around the school yard.
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17. In 1937 the school burned during the Christmas holidays and 16’ x 20’
18. house was moved from south of Edinglassie school, near the Ribstone
19. Creek. As many as twenty children were crowded in.
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21. A basement was dug but it was some time before the school was built. A
22. mound of earth from the basement was piled where the school had been
23. and was used as a sledding run by the children. The mound remains there
24. with the spruce and pines.
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26. In 1948, when schools were consolidated, the building was bought by Mike
27. Trefiak and moved to his farm where it has been remodelled and is a home
28. today.

Old Ribstone School District No. 1629
Submitted by Mildred Reinhart
from information given by Howard White

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