• Puterbaugh Schoolhouse
The Puterbaugh house was donated to the museum village by the family in 1996. It was built around 1820 near Maple, Ontario and is set as a one-room school, typical of the 1830s in Pickering Township. It was reconstructed through a partnership between the City of Pickering and the Pickering Museum Village Foundation. A self-directed schoolroom activity booklet available in the Museum Gift Shop can give you an idea of what life was like in school days of the 1830s.
PMV volunteer Ed Cammack handmade the children's benches, Glendale Tennis Club donated a gift of light and Doug Watkins and family donated a brass bell for our schoolhouse.
Pickering Junction News covering the opening. |