New - Maine, Aroostook Cty
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Started on 2002-09-02
New - Maine, Aroostook Cty
From: dmlathrop (pineknoll@snet.net) |
Date: 2002-09-02 11:45:45 UTC-04:00
JAMES SCHOOLHOUSE LETTERBOX
PRESQU'ISLE, MAINE
AROOSTOOK COUNTY
Planted by the Bonnie and Clyde Gang of CT on August 20th,
2002. Easy.
Follow Rt 1 South out of the center of Presqu'isle.
Follow the signs to Aroostook State Park off of Rt 1, but continue straight when
the signs to the park indicate that you turn left. You will
see the Launch Site of the First TransAtlantic Balloon Flight. You
may want to stop here for an interesting visit. (We were going to
plant a box here, but couldn't find a spot to hide it.) The James
Schoolhouse is further down the road, about a mile on the left. (It is
yellow.)Turn in here.
This one room schoolhouse was built in 1917. Peek in the
windows and you'll see the school just as it might have been when children
filled those seats reading from their books, the stove in the middle
glowing with warmth, the teacher pacing up and down the rows, and one or two
students day-dreaming out the long row of windows. Just imagine if those
walls could talk, what stories they'd tell. The restoration of this old
school is marvelous and has been filled with furniture and items of the
era. The hours for July and August are between 1-2. Perhaps,
you'll be lucky enough to be able to go inside if you go on a Saturday
afternoon.
To find the letterbox, go left out back to the shed where
they would have kept wood. Go around the shed. Now you are behind
the school. Near one of the posts of the shed's foundation, look for a flat
rock. What you seek is under there. Rehide carefully.