The original campus of Shen-Ao Elementary School, located in the historic Shen’aokeng (深澳坑) coal mining valley in Keelung. Teaching on the site began with a private academy in 1926 and a Japanese language institute in 1941, near the end of the Japanese colonial era. The school became a branch of Xinyi Elementary School in 1947 and was granted independent status in 1951. Constrained by the hillside, the terraced campus was abandoned in 2009 when the school moved 500 meters northwest to a new site, and the remaining buildings are undergoing demolition in 2026.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Facebook: About Keelung (基隆人踹共)
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- Urban Exploration in Taiwan (台灣城市探險)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.