FOURTH WARD SCHOOL MUSEUM
Museum — Virginia City, Nevada
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public · est. 1876
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fourth-ward-school-museum-virginia-city-nevada/

1876 four-story schoolhouse museum with a schoolmarm ghost.

Fourth Ward School Museum is a museum in Virginia City, Nevada, built in 1876. 1876 four-story schoolhouse museum with a schoolmarm ghost. The name the accounts keep returning to is Schoolmarm. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

The Fourth Ward is the Comstock's school — the 1876 centennial building, the thousand students that it held. The Suzette is the ghost — the teacher who walks the schoolyard, the vanishing hitchhiker who gets rides. The stairs are the sounds — the children's running that's heard, the classroom that's the '76 original.
The curriculum was the first — the nine grades that it pioneered, the diplomas that were Nevada's first. The decline was the mining's — the '36 closure when the town shrank, the museum that it became. The Fourth Ward is the preserved — the Second Empire that's the landmark, the haunted school that's the tour.
The file keeps the Fourth Ward: the 1876 opening, the Suzette legend, the closure, and the museum.
The Fourth Ward is the archive's Virginia City file — the Comstock's schoolhouse.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Fourth Ward is the archive's Virginia City file — the silver rush's school.
A school keeps its teacher — the file's suggestion being that the Fourth Ward's hold is the Suzette: the vanishing hitchhiker, the stairs that still sound, and the classroom that's frozen in '76.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] named ghost legend: Staff and visitors report a schoolmarm figure and children’s voices in the classrooms. Fourth Ward School Museum in Virginia City, Nevada curates the past professionally; the reports suggest some of the past curates back. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Fourth Ward School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Ward_School_(Virginia_City,_Nevada))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1876] Built in 1876; served Virginia City students into the 20th century. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Fourth Ward School' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Fourth Ward School — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Ward_School_(Virginia_City,_Nevada)

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