A school that began in a tobacco shed.
Caohu Elementary began in 1952 as a branch of Tucheng Elementary School and became independent in 1955. In its earliest days, with the school building not yet finished, classes were held in a borrowed tobacco-curing shed — a direct trace of Dali's mid-20th-century tobacco-farming economy before the area urbanized.
草湖國小於民國41年（1952年）以塗城國小分校形式創立，民國44年（1955年）獨立設校。創校初期因校舍尚未完工，曾借用一座菸樓作為臨時教室上課，直接見證了大里都市化之前、以菸葉種植為主的中期經濟型態。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🚬 Classes in a Borrowed Tobacco Shed
借用菸樓上課
With the school building unfinished, early classes were held in a borrowed tobacco-curing shed, a direct trace of Dali's mid-century tobacco-farming economy.
🌱 Roots in the Tucheng Branch System
源自塗城分校
Founded in 1952 as a branch of Tucheng Elementary, the school became independent just three years later in 1955.
🏞️ A Window Into Pre-Urban Dali
都市化前的大里縮影
The school's founding-era makeshift classroom offers a rare, concrete link to the farming economy that predated Dali's later suburban development.
A trace of Dali's farming past.
Its founding-era use of a tobacco shed as a makeshift classroom is a direct trace of Dali's mid-20th-century tobacco-farming economy before the area urbanized. See the Taichung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 32, Xihu Rd., Dali Dist., Taichung City 412, Taiwan
臺中市大里區西湖路32號
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