la the early days of St . Eleanor's School was taught by any person who felt qualified to do so, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pope opened the first school in 1820. A Mr. Sherlock kept the next school in a log cabin. In 1827 a Mr. William ^ Coats (or Coots, as his name was spelled by Mr. Wiggins ) arrived in the Village from England , and kept School over "a store owned by one James Sharp . Mr, Wiggins wrote to the S.P.G . to urge the Society to open a school in the Village, and strongly recommended Mr. Coats for appointment as schoolmaster. The Church did erect a school building on the corner of the Church lot, but with the advent of public school education, the Church discontinued its school. The building was auctioned, and haul¬ ed away $o , Eleanor's, Thereafter school was taught in the Court House until a new school was built. Today the Court House is gone too. St , Eleanor's boasted two hotelst the "Ness", which burned down in 1932; and the "Old American", which is today Lyle's Canteen, Near the "Old American" is a long narrow house, now occupied by the Village clerk, Mrs, Linda Muir- head, which used to be a carriage factory. St , Eleanor's about 1925 (Photo courtesy R. Lyle )