Clarendon and Miller Community Archives
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Plevna Schools
Section School #2
This school, probably the fourth or fifth to open in the area, was built by Elisha Playfair around 1863 (though not used for several years) and enlarged during the 1890s and again in 1922.
Playfair had a sawmill and built a frame school when others were constructed of logs. Thos. Deacon was held in this school while awaiting trial for murder. It was used as a Building Supply Centre for a number of years and is now a private residence on Lookout Lane in Plevna.
Section School #4
This, log school, (located in the area of the current junction of Mountain and Grindstone Roads) was opened in 1863, possibly the first in the area, and originally numbered as No.2. Children from Buckshot/Plevna, in Clarendon, attended here with students from Miller Township. When it closed, all students went to SS No.2 in Buckshot/Plevna.
Clarendon Central Public School
This school was constructed in Plevna in 1962/3 and it opened for students April 10, 1963. Students from Fernleigh and Ardoch were already being bussed to the SS#2 in Plevna as the other one-room schools in these areas had been closed. The old school would not hold all the students as the new school was being built, so the grades 7 and 8 attended school in the old green hall across from the Anglican Church. That day in April, all the students walked from the old school to the new one and what an exciting time it was. The school now had inside bathrooms and water fountains. In 1965, the students from Ompah and Canonto were bussed to Clarendon Central. In 1967, Janet Kellar designed the crest for Clarendon Central P.S..
