Margaret Lord . An indenture registered April 12, 1875 between John Lord and his wife, Margaret C. Lord , and Archibald and Philip Lord, brothers, conveyed 200 acres of land fronting on the south side of the Tryon to and extending from the bridge known as Hibbit's Bridge (the crossing below Leslie MacDonald 's house) to land in possession of Thomas Dawson . This property included the mill dam, carding mill, saw mill and grist mill know as the Gouldrup's Mills, and a plot of land on which the school house was located. The school house land was reserved in perpetuity for the benefit of the school district. The North Tryon School remained as No. 143 until 1972, when the Provincial Department of Education assumed ownership of all schools in the province. The building still sits on the original site described in John C. Lord 's indenture. The following teachers taught in North Tryon : 1878-1879 C.H.Ives . 1879-1880 John W. Young . 1880-1883 Emmi B. McPhail . 1883-1884 Bertha Letson and Kelly Fowler . 1884-1885 J. Fraser , 58 pupils. 1885-1886 J.AIves . 1886-1887 Georgie Morrison , taught for 6 months for $63.00. 1887-1888 J.A.Ives . The school inspector in his 1888 report named as Honour Teachers in : Georgina Morrison , Tryon ; Edwin Dawson , Albany; and John P. Hood , Augustine Cove . 1888-1889 Janie Rogerson , taught for 6 months for $44.50. 1889-1891 Stephen V. Balderston . 1891-1892 H. Louise Martin . 1892-1895 Ida C. Dawson . 1895-1900 Georgie McLean . 1900-1901 Colin Callbeck . 1901-1902 John L. Lord .9 Brent Wood , son of George Wood , attended North Tryon School in the spring of 1901, and gave an account of his early school days in his history of the Wood family: We were a mile and a half from school. In winter we took a horse and sleigh, putting our horse called "Old King" up at Chisholm's. The evening return was a happy but hungry one. I had started to school in the summer of 1900 at Mount Tryon , the same school my mother attended. Winter was pretty severe for a six year old; consequently, I was allowed to stay home for the winter and in the spring of 1901 sent off to North Tryon . In those days there were no grades as we know them today. Overcrowded country schools followed a pretty hap-hazard course of studies. When I was big enough to work on the farm, I went to school in winter only. Under these circumstances the outlook for an education was not promising and a teenager at this time in his life is not too worried about the future. I was eighteen before this situation was given serious thought. 138