The Tupperville School

The schoolhouse was built circa 1869, although the deed is dated 1884. Philip Inglis gave the land to the community for the school when the building was moved. The school was originally built further up the road toward Bridgetown but moved when the community realized that the present location was more central.

The schoolhouse was never a church. Forty to sixty students attended the school at one time. The present day office was once a woodshed and the museum still houses the original children's desks, which are now over 100 years old.

Tupperville School closed in 1970, and it is now one of the few remaining schools that have been converted into a museum in Nova Scotia. During the Bridgetown Area Summer Homecoming 1972, the school was opened for a week. Premier Gerald Reagan, who attended the B.A.S.H., was very impressed and suggested that the community request a grant to keep the school open for tourists. The museum stayed opened with voluntary help for that summer.

Many items that were used during the building's school days can still be seen. Cloth bags by the sink contain drinking cups; each child having their own hung from the wall with their name above. This was to encourage sanitation.

at one time oil lamps. The stove displayed in the museum is not the original but resembles the coal burning one that once kept the school warm. It was donated by the Inglis Goodwin family.

A butter churn, now displayed in the museum, was operated by a foot pedal so that mothers could rock their babies and make butter at the same time.

A Portrait of Colonel DeLancey who was a loyalist in the American Revolution and was killed by his maid. His monument is across from the Martin house in Tupperville. There are also some works of Louis Jeremy, a Miíkmaq native craftsman, born in New Brunswick in 1875. He lived for a time at Tupperville Falls with his sister, Rebecca and died in Aylesford in 1950. Most of his carvings are done in lightly coloured wood, often with natural designs burned into the surface.

The original teacher's desk is quite unique and was featured in the series, Pit Ponies which was produced in the fall of 1997.

The organ was made of church pews from the Anglican Church in Bridgetown and was given to the museum by Alan Tupper. It was used as an aid for teaching music in the school. The pupils previously walked to the Tupper household for their music lessons.

This one room school did not have modern-day lighting or heating. The lamps on the walls were