By Maggie Magoffin
Many thanks to Karen Sullivan of Westminster, Colorado for sharing her amazing collection of books, magazines and news articles regarding Central City and the Gilpin County area. The following composition by Maggie Maguire comes from one of Karen’s books, “Mining Gold to Mining Wallets – Central City, Colorado 1859-1999,” and is one she felt particularly interested in as the name is so similar to mine.
Miss Maguire wrote: When I first came to Central about eight years ago, there was a public school in which about fifty scholars were taught. The schoolhouse was sitting on Lawrence Street. It was a rickety old building, two stories high, with “Public School” printed in large letters, over the street door. It contained three rooms, two of which were used for school purposes. The scholars sat on pine seats, their desks being painted dark drab, much the worse for wear and the use the boys made of their knives.
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