Offices of Local Rag and Dongara Pottery Club
Corner of Waldeck Street and Moreton Terrace
The first Dongara School was built in 1870 on the site of the present police station, but by 1906 increased student numbers led to the construction of a two-room school with a verandah and shelter shed in the grounds. Many rural school buildings were built to this design from the turn of the twentieth century. The separate brick classroom was built in the early 1960s as school enrolments rose with the growth of the fishing industry. The school served the town until 1972, when new district high school was built in Cave Way, an aptly named street as Henry Cave was Dongara’s first school master. The building remains relatively intact and is representative of small, simple rural school buildings from the turn of the century.
Dongara Second School, 1912. Pupils were going to swimming classes near the jetty I IRME0698
