The School House
Built in 1879, this
one-room building was the original school at Garo, located nine-miles
east of Fairplay. Until the mid-1930's the children of gold miners,
merchants and ranchers of South Park attended classes in little
schoolhouses just like this one.
All grades were taught in this one-room school, and like the
other schools in Park County, one teacher would have taught every
class. For example, a Mrs. Mayme O'Mailia was a teacher in this
building from 1912 to 1913. She taught ten grades including Chemistry,
English and Latin... all at a salary of sixty dollars a month!
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