Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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pw My Ll! L. l 1 Administration THE development of education in Mentor township is very valuable and interesting historically, for its beginning dates back many years. Although the exact date of the erection of the first schoolhouse in Mentor is not known, it is believed that it was sometime prior to 1840. The site of the first schoolhouse is where the Murray residence is now situated. The first teacher, Katherine Smith, received three shillings a week, and the kind school directors allowed her to bring her spinning wheel to school. The second school house, a log building which stood exactly where the Mentor High School is now situated, was conducted by Miss Experience Dewey. This school consisted of one large room with a very good stage at the east end, and a warm stove well-placed to protect the scholars and teachers from the wintry blasts. After a few years this school house burned. The books burned and this was the greatest loss to the community for books were scarce and herefore of great value. The loss of wood was of little or of no consequence. The third school house was built on Hopkins Farm, west of the present Kenney property and Mr. Alfred Morley, a stern man, was the first teacher. He was succeeded by Mr. Salkeld, a much-beloved and wonderful teacher. The Belldeck school house, recognized by its peculiarly shaped belfrey, was next erected west of Winfield's tourist camp. The Belldeck school house was later moved to Jackson Street and is now the ShanoWer's resi- dence. About the year 1860, an era of brick school buildings began. Many of these remain today scattered throughout the community either vacant or used as homes. To recall a few of these to mind one may 'find the Men- tor Plains, North Mentor, Headlands Road, Stockwell District, Little Moun- tain schools, and others still standing. Little is known about the enrollment of the early schools except that there were more pupils attending school in 1850 than in the nineties. A ,..,.Y? L ' if,