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The Jordan Historical Museum is a community history museum established in 1953 that tells the story of the five towns and villages located within the boundaries of the Lincoln, Ontario. The museum began as a joint project between Jordan Wines and the people of the area, many of whom were descendants of Pennsylvania German Mennonite Pennsylvania Dutch and Loyalist settlers United Empire Loyalists. The museum consists of an acre of land that overlooks the Twenty Mile Creek, with three buildings: the 1815 Pennsylvania German Mennonite log farmhouse, an 1859 stone school house, and a main administration building that features an exhibit gallery with a special collection of fraktur folk art Fraktur. The log farmhouse is located on the site of a former church, demolished in 1899, and is surrounded by is also a grave site featuring names of Loyalist and Mennonite families. == The School House == In 1858, a little to the west of where the current school house sits, a red brick school house suffered the devastating effects of a fire, and was burned to the ground. The following year, the school trustees oversaw the building of a new structure, made from local limestone. It was larger, and brighter, quite up-to-the-minute for its time with huge windows, carefully chosen colour scheme designed specifically to encourage attention and obedience. It also sported a sloped floor, angled up and away from the teacher’s raised platform so that students at the back could see clearly over the heads of the children in front of them. It became, as most schools did, a center of the community, used for the local Ladies Intellectual Club meetings, adult German language classes, and of course, the inevitable and much anticipated annual Christmas pageant. It also had a bit of a reputation as having “difficult” students. Most of the children came from farms, and the boys especially were not the most attentive students, as they often had more immediate, pressing duties at home. Many a child would come to school already exhausted from being up early attending to chores, and often, classes would be vastly reduced as the spring and fall arrived. Children from this school developed a reputation for being somewhat hard on the teachers, who were often young, female, and fresh out of teacher’s college. It was uncommon for any teacher stayed longer than one term. The school was in use for 89 years, until a bigger, much more modern one was built nearby. The stone school house was abandoned, stripped of its interior, and left alone. In 1952, Jordan Wines purchased it and gave it back to the community. It was filled with agricultural tools and artisan’s equipment, and turned into a museum, which opened in 1953. In 1997, the school house was painstakingly restored to look as it would have in 1908. Desks were found, the ceiling was replaced, as was the dividing wall and the girls and boys separate entrances, and all the details of a one room school of that period were carefully installed. A school field trip program was set up whereby children would come for the day, and roleplay a child who was actually a student there in 1908. It has proven to be very successful. During the summer months, the schoolhouse is open to the public. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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