Another cache at a school sign in the Foothills area. Parking is close to the sign. Please do not block driveway,
Glenmede School was one of the first in the district between Longview and Black Diamond. The owner of NW and SW of Section 21 owned both ¼ sections and donated 1& 1/2 acres for a school site and the area planned before the land was accurately surveyed. The school ended up being right on the dividing line between the two quarter sections.
By 1929, the influx of oilfield workers resulted in a second room being built. By the time it opened there were 47 students in each room. The school’s first teacher, Miss Creighton was hired in 1904 at an annual salary of $480. Later two of her sisters taught at Glenmede, not at the same time but one after the other.
“The children were pleasant and well behaved. Of course, in those days the teacher was held in great respect. Her word was law.”
The school was closed in 1955 (after 51 years of operation) and the buildings were moved to Black Diamond to be part of the new Black Diamond Elementary Consolidated School.
Information taken from: Pioneering with a Piece of Chalk, by Bill Baergen
In the Light of the Flares, by the Sheep River Historical Society.