Sunrise Education
by Bonfire Photography
Title
Sunrise Education
Artist
Bonfire Photography
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Prints
Description
Sunrise Education - Maysville School was built in the summer of 1867 (according to one report was built by unemployed soldiers returning from the Civil War). Jas. Carn was the contractor and the school cost $5,000 to build. The limestone building is 30 feet by 50 feet with 10 feet between joists.
The first floor walls are 18 inches thick and the foundation is four feet below the surface. The limestone came from Maynes Creek, which flows within three miles of the school building. This rock is a soft, fine-grained, dark yellowish orange, ideal for shaping into dimension blocks. The lintels above the windows are formed from a different kind of rock. In stone walled buildings, the lintel formed a structural support above an opening and thus had to be a very strong, durable stone. It was common to import such block of marble for this purpose. The lintels of Maysville are formed from a rock foreign to the area, and appear to be a gray, weathered to white marble.
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April 24th, 2017
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