1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

The dear old home, a sacred spot Of childhood ne'er can be forgot, Though months and years may pass away And we 1n distant lands may stray, Its scenes from mind we ne'er can blot. How sacred seems thy baton door, Thy windows small and oaken floor! Thy broad stone hearth and fireplace wide, Whose cheerful fires we sat beside, And knelt our Savior to adore! I see thy yard with verdure green, Thy hillside slopes with rocks between, Thy spring, thy barn, thy orchard trees, Thy blooming· flowers, and humming bees. How bright to memory is the scene! My home, 0 home, my childhood's home! I'll think of thee where'er I roam. In fancy now on thee I gaze, My home, sweet home of other days! BIG SPRING REY. H. P. JACKSON'S OLD HOME SCHOOLS The first schoolhouse built in the township was on the Townsley L1rm. The second one was on the cliff on the Wm. Barber farm west of town, overlooking Massie's Creek and the paper mill reservoir– a romantic location for a schoolhouse. Other schoolhouses were built from time to time in places convenient for the children to attend. In 1850, James Turnbull, born and reared two miles east of Cedarville, a very popular schoolteacher, bought a lot in the village from Judge Samuel Kyle. It was covered with a grove of sugar trees. He built a frame schoolhouse and opened a subscription school September, 1850, and named it Grove School. The school prospered and ,became very popular, till in three y.ears there were 200 scholars in attendance. Alas! Mr. Turnbull died. His funeral was the largest of any one that occurred in Cedarville before or since. Other teachers were employed, but in a few years the District bought it and it became a public school, tuition free to this day.