History of SS No.9 Goring (The Ebenezer Schoolhouse) -- Euprhrasia Township
About the year 1855 Euphrasia Township first council was elected and in some later year divided the Township into school sections. The business of these school sections was looked after by three trustees and a secretary treasurer. In the year 1964 this was changed to what is known as the Township School Board, with five Trustees to look after the business of all the schools in the Township.
The first school in S.S. No. 9 Euphrasiawas situated on what is known tas the Mitchell Bush property in a cleared field now rented and worked by Alonzo Rennie. The old frame school was afterwards used as a dwelling house by one of the early settlers by the name of James Dunlop. The same old building was later moved to Goring and placed on the property belonging to the Richard Wood family at the time and now owned by Stanley Hanna. It was used to house a grain grinding mill operated by John Kirkpatrick and Sam Wood.
In the same year 1872 James Curry donated the land on the west half of lot 25, Con. 10 for a school. The trustees of that time let the contract for a modern stone school which is still standing in good repair. The trustees of the time were old settlers in the neighbourhood, Philip Walter, a son of the man who was responsible for the founding if the village of Walter's Falls whose family had the first mill on lot 30, Con. 10 Euphrasia now owned by Clair Walters where the first settlers who got their wheat ground into flour; James Curry who donated the land on which the present school is located and Wm. Milson one of the most successful farmers of that time.
About the year 1910 the grounds surrounding the school were found to be inadequate for the forty some pupils in attendance. One half acre of land was added to the South of the play grounds at a cost of eighteen dollars. In the year 1949 some new seats were purchased and put in the centre aisles, 1950 the hydro was installed, 1951 chemical toilets were placed in the woodshed of the school at a cost of five hundred dollars. In 1957 a new teachers desk and some second hand modern desks and new blackboards. 1962 new front door, 1963 a new ceiling.
Today, when the schoolhouse is not being loved by it's owners, the property is an idyllic recreation rental.
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