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42-532: Wellingrove is a village located on the Wellingrove Road about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north west of Glen Innes, New South Wales on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales , Australia . At the 2006 census , Wellingrove had a population of 113. Wellingrove was established in the 1840s when the run of 50,000 acres (200 km) was taken up by George Polhill. This run became a site for Polhill, who

84-497: A California two-room school plan separates the rooms with long hallway, with the vestibule, coatrooms, a library and teacher's office between the classrooms. A rear projection includes toilets and lab/shop spaces. A Minnesota design for rural schools gives special attention to minimizing heating duct length to a basement furnace with a compact design with the classroom, library, vestibule, and coatroom clustered together. This one-room school can be expanded to two rooms by mirroring

126-409: A church, Rural Fire Service (RFS) and a community hall in a Crown Land fossicking area where sapphires and zircons may be found. The main industry is agriculture, principally sheep and beef cattle breeding. Kings Plains National Park is located about 20 kilometres north west of Wellingrove. Glen Innes, New South Wales Glen Innes is a parish and town on the Northern Tablelands , in

168-429: A large cattle feedlot, and transport depots. Sawmilling was historically a major industry of the district, but is now only conducted on a reasonable scale by the local minimum-security prison. The conversion of State Forests into National Parks has led to tourism becoming an important employer. Glen Innes is 1,062 metres (3,484 ft) AHD with an average annual rainfall of 901.8 millimetres (35.50 in). The climate

210-468: A private school in 1996 and later became a library for the larger Eleanor Roosevelt Learning Center which supports hundreds of home-schooled students. The image of two-room school is used as the logo for the Learning Center because it is an "important symbol of aspirational leadership in education" and the school provides "a sense of turning back to the successful basics." One notable two-room teacher

252-633: A school not only from one to two rooms, but also from two to four classrooms, three to six, or four to six or eight. These plans were designed to expand an architecturally simple small school at minimal cost with near complete re-use of the prior building. North Carolina is one state that had such plans. In the early 20th century, the United States Bureau of Education made scale models of one, two, and four room schoolhouses available to rural communities by parcel post . The models were sufficiently detailed that "any competent carpenter" could replicate

294-405: A school room be no bigger than 24 by 30 feet (7.3 m × 9.1 m) which would seat up to 40 students, as "a teacher having charge of more than this number cannot do satisfactory work - especially in a rural school". The width was also the limit of acceptable daylighting from windows on the opposite wall. The guide recommended a vestibule between the entrance and the classrooms to separate

336-478: A similar design in 1913 for a 23 ft × 30 ft (7.0 m × 9.1 m) one-room school house and a 46 ft × 30 ft (14.0 m × 9.1 m) two-room school, again with a movable wall between the two classrooms. These dimensions do not include the shared vestibule and coat rooms. A 1916 bulletin issued by the Oregon school superintendent included plans for six different variations of

378-629: A single room in 1919 and expanded to two rooms in the 1990s. In 2019, it employed two teachers, two aides and a part-time principal to teach 19 students from kindergarten through Grade 4. In September of the same year, it celebrated one hundred years of continuous operation. In December 2019, the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion started a project to demolish and rebuild a two-room schoolhouse at Timor-Leste 's National Institute of Health in Dili . The project

420-539: A small rural school. Enrollment climbed again in the 1980s as parents sought to avoid problems with peer pressure and drugs in bigger schools. Enrollment climbed to 47 in 2014. After receiving funding in 2019 from a state grant for improving small schools, the school added a third classroom and performed other repairs and modernization of the school. The two-room Venice School in Tulare County, California , opened in 1892 and served farm families until 1957. It reopened as

462-674: A team, the Glen Innes Magpies had to withdraw from the group 19 competition in 2022. Glen Innes has annual competitions and representative teams in the following: Golf, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Lawn Bowls, Tennis, Netball, Basketball, Cricket, Squash, Touch Football, Tent Pegging, Campdrafting, Shooting, Sheepdog trials, Roller Skating and Roller Hockey. The district also has a community radio station, 2CBD FM which broadcasts on 105.9FM in Glen Innes and 91.1FM in Deepwater. Glen Innes

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504-516: A two-room school house prepared by the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the architecture departments of the University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural College . One plan also featured two similarly sized classrooms, vestibule, coat rooms and the added amenities of an enclosed porch and a 88 sq ft (8.2 m ) library in the front and a wood shed attached to

546-567: Is home to a turbine wind farm (White Rock Wind farm) which the New South Wales Government approved 23 km west of the town. There are 70 turbines standing 150 metres high. Stage 2, consisting of another 49 turbines and a Solar Farm have also received approval from the NSW Government. [REDACTED] Glen Innes travel guide from Wikivoyage Two-teacher school A 1909 school planning guide from New Mexico suggests

588-561: Is Bonnie Boggs who taught for 14 years in the two-room elementary school in rural Loma, Montana . One room was a classroom, and the other was a science lab and Bogg's innovative use of science in teaching other subjects earned her the National Science Foundation Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics in 1995. Canada has been home to a number of two-room schools. In Hoggs Hollow , Toronto ,

630-600: Is Gindaaydjin, meaning "plenty of big round stones on clear plains". The arrival of European settlers saw the significant disruption of the life of Ngarabal people. Many Ngarabal people continue to live in the Glen Innes area, still practising many aspects of their traditional culture and way of life. In about 1838 Archibald Boyd registered the first run in the Glen Innes district. Two stockmen known as "the Beardies" because of their long beards took Boyd to this area to establish his run. The Beardies later introduced other squatters to

672-572: Is Glen Innes' twin town in Scotland. Other towns nearby with Scottish names include Armidale , Ben Lomond and Glencoe . The name of nearby Inverell is also of Scottish Gaelic origin, meaning "meeting place of the swans" in reference to the black swans once typically seen on the Macintyre River . Glen Innes has twin town status with Pitlochry in Scotland, and Mosman in Sydney . Glen Innes

714-546: Is believed to be bestowed by Mosman in honour of Innes. Glen Innes was gazetted as a town in 1852 and the first lots were sold in 1854. The post office was established in August 1854 and the court in 1858 when they replaced the Wellingrove offices. In 1866 the population was about 350, with a telegraph station, lands office, police barracks, courthouse, post office and two hotels. There was still no coach service at this time, but in

756-488: Is officially classed as a temperate oceanic climate ( Köppen : Cfb ). The area records some of Australia's coldest minimum temperatures outside the Snowy Mountains and Tasmania , with mild to warm summers and cold, windy winters with regular frosts and occasional snowfalls, though many snowfalls do not settle. Glen Innes's highest recorded temperature was 37.3 °C (99.1 °F) on 22 December 2019, and its coldest

798-700: The New England region of New South Wales , Australia. It is the centre of the Glen Innes Severn Shire Council . The town is located at the intersection of the New England Highway and the Gwydir Highway . At the 2016 census , Glen Innes had a population of 6,155. The original owners of Glen Innes and surrounding areas are the Ngarabal people. The Ngarabal name of the township of Glen Innes

840-572: The Wayback Machine The town also has a thriving arts and crafts community, with a public art gallery, the Glen Innes Art Gallery that hold regular and changing exhibitions each year. The most popular sport in Glen Innes is rugby league. The town's team, the Glen Innes Magpies, play in the Group 19 Rugby League A-Grade competition. However due to non interest and a lack of numbers to make

882-402: The 1870s a road was constructed to Grafton . Tin was first discovered at Emmaville in 1872 and Glen Innes became the centre of a mining bonanza during the late 19th century. In 1875, the population had swelled to about 1,500 and the town had a two-teacher school , three churches, five hotels, two weekly newspapers, seven stores and a variety of societies and associations. On 19 August 1884

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924-715: The Baron Renfrew School was a two-room school that opened in 1925. It was named in honor of the Edward, then-Prince of Wales , and after King Edward abdicated it was renamed York Mills School. A new wing was added in 1950, and the school continued to operate until 1982. The building was demolished in 2004. In the Canadian province of Quebec , the Soulanges School in Saint-Télesphore is a two-room schoolhouse constructed with

966-668: The Eliza in charge of 170 convicts. He held a number of New England properties including Glen Innes Station and Dundee station . Glen Innes has a number of street signs in Scottish Gaelic (though no residents speak the language). There is also a " Crofter "'s cottage. The Australian Standing Stones are based on the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney (a non-Gaelic speaking area) or Calanais in Lewis . Pitlochry

1008-495: The Gaden, Rodgers, Williams, Cameron, Donnelly, McIntyre, Williamson and Newsome families. The district has produced several sportsmen and women who have represented Australia. These include two Olympians ( Debbie Wells and David Cooper ), Rugby League players Reg O'Keefe and John Ferguson , pistol shooters Bruce Favell and Robert Landers, masters athletics world champion Neville McIntyre and Andrew McIntyre (Tentpegging). Two of

1050-556: The National Estate . The town boasts a railway station that was once part of the Main North Line . Today, the line is closed so the station is not in use and the buildings have been repurposed. Glen Innes has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: According to the 2021 census of Population, there were 6,219 people in Glen Innes. The Glen Innes district has been a producer of wool , sheep and beef cattle since it

1092-477: The back with a wood-fired heater for each classroom. South Carolina noted that school districts in the state that used a standard design from its bulletin, prepared by Clemson Agricultural College , would receive one-half of the construction cost from the state and county. South Carolina recommended one-room schools only if "after careful consideration, and after all efforts to maintain a two-room, two-teacher school have failed. Instead of adjacent classrooms,

1134-509: The best runs in the area to become known as the Land of the Beardies or Beardie Plains. Furracabad Station was suggested by John James Galloway as an alternative to Wellingrove for a new town. However Furracabad Station was sold in the 1840s depression and passed to Major Archibald Clunes Innes , then to the Bank of Australasia , then to John Major, who sold it to Archibald Mosman . The name Glen Innes

1176-515: The entire building. The two room school affords for indoor toilets as the "second" library space can be used for a girls' toilet room (a boys' toilet would go under the entrance stairs). A two-room schoolhouse in Osgood, Ohio , designed by architect C. F. Bowdle of Piqua, Ohio , was cited in the October 1914 issue of Building Age magazine as an example of a "modern" school. To meet state building codes,

1218-429: The entire foundation and exterior walls are made of masonry, with a roof of asbestos shingles. The simple design includes two 31 ft × 38 ft (9.4 m × 11.6 m) classrooms separated by the vestibule and coat rooms. This design included a rear vestibule and exit for each classroom. To facilitate expansion of schools associated with the growth of a community, plans were also developed to enlarge

1260-734: The extensive Land of the Beardies History Museum with its collection of biographical and historical records, the town parks, fishing , fossicking areas, Gibraltar Range National Park , several waterfalls , the Australian Standing Stones, which are large monoliths and the World Heritage listed Washpool National Park . There are several Christian churches, including the Cameron Memorial Uniting Church and St Andrews Presbyterian Church, which hail from

1302-580: The model in full-size. The program was designed to aid small districts that could not afford to pay architects to develop plans for schools with modern standards of "health and efficiency". In 1914, at the program's initiation, it was estimated that there had been 212,000 rural schools built in the United States, most of which had been planned without "any regard to light, ventilation, or sanitation". While many small schools were closed after consolidation into larger districts, some remained. A two-room school

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1344-600: The more highly decorated armed servicemen that still have family in the district were Peter Turnbull and Charles Curnow Scherf . Another major contributor to the wars from Glen Innes was Edward (Ted) Kinsella who was a soldier and army official who was stationed in Greece, Gallipoli and France. Archibald Clunes Innes , from Thrumster, Caithness was a captain in the Third Regiment (Buffs), when he arrived in Australia in 1822 on

1386-512: The new Main North railway from Sydney opened. The arrival of the rail service and the expansion of mining contributed a new prosperity in the town, which is reflected in some of the beautiful buildings there. The centre of the town retains some of its federation buildings and the owners have painted these buildings in the traditional colours. Many of these buildings have been placed on the Register of

1428-513: The outdoor climate from the classrooms. Coatrooms off the vestibule allowed a place for wet clothes to dry while keeping their "disagreeable offensive odors" out of the classrooms. North Carolina issued a guide in 1914 with a floorplan of a similar two-room school with the same layout of a front entrance into a vestibule, two coatrooms off the vestibule, and a large room divided by a moveable wall into two 26 ft × 32 ft (7.9 m × 9.8 m) classrooms. Oklahoma presented

1470-506: The principal settlements of the northern New England district. The closure and movement of the court of petty sessions to Glen Innes in 1858 led to the decline of Wellingrove. The last business to close was the Wellingrove Hotel, which shut down in 1917. However, with the continued growth of the nearby towns of Glen Innes and Inverell, the village of Wellingrove declined and is now a place of minimal significance. Today Wellingrove has

1512-718: The town's Scottish roots; as well as the Holy Trinity Anglican and St Patrick's Catholic Churches, Baptist, Assembly of God, Seventh Day Adventist and other smaller congregations. Annual events include: Minerama, a gem and fossicking festival; the Australian Celtic Festival, Land of the Beardies Festival, Pastoral and Agricultural Show and also horse racing, the Glen Innes Cup. The Glen Innes Arts Council produces their own theatrical productions throughout

1554-436: The year and presents travelling productions and film screenings. It is the longest continuously running arts council in Australia, housed in their venue, The Chapel Theatre. The chapel is equipped with a state-of-the-art, 3D Digital Cinema system with Dolby 7.1 Sound. Information on Glen Innes Arts Council productions and screenings can be found at their website - http://www.gleninnesartscouncil.com Archived 3 January 2014 at

1596-458: Was a resident magistrate, to conduct a court of petty sessions for the area between Ben Lomond to Bolivia . In 1849 the Woolpack Inn was built and in 1849 Galloway, the surveyor, was instructed to survey townships at Wellingrove and Glen Innes. Despite objections from Galloway that the area was too far from main roads the town was gazetted in 1852. Thus for several decades Wellingrove was one of

1638-427: Was first settled. Sapphires are mined in the creek valleys immediately west of town, and while tin is no longer commercially mined, mineral exploration is ongoing. The town holds regular livestock sales in the local sale-yards. The town contains all of the regular service industries required by the community. Notable individual businesses include a photographic processing facility, an exporter of waste material balers,

1680-517: Was operating in the farming community of Ellensburg, Washington , in 1987. The Damman School taught 27 children that year in two classes, those in Kindergarten through second grade in one classroom and those in third through sixth grade in the other. According to the district superintendent, who had attended the school herself, enrollment fell in the late 1960s to as low as four as parents felt their children would be socially disadvantaged by attending

1722-626: Was the birthplace of writer D'Arcy Niland , High Court judge Edward McTiernan and architects Colin Madigan and Nancy Allen . Notable Former Residents: Bishop Thomas Absolem McCabe  [ de ] , the first bishop of Wollongong whose grave is in St Francis Xavier Cathedral grounds, Wollongong, Margaret Fulton , Australia's first and most famous real-food cookbook author and Garry McDonald of "Norman Gunston" and "Mother and Son" fame. Other prominent families in this district include

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1764-416: Was −12.8 °C (9.0 °F) on 8 July 2002. Rainfall is heaviest in late spring, owing to the effects of the surrounding mountains, causing uplift which in turn causes frequent, heavy storms during this period. At 6:33 AM on 19 July 2019, the town registered a temperature of −12.3 °C (9.9 °F), making it the coldest place in Australia in that year. Among the many attractions of this area are

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