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You told us George Washington was born in 1778 and teacher gave me a black mark on _ that _ . '' As that week progressed and the cold weather continued , a really wonderful structure was raised on the Parade Ground opposite the main door of the Milton High School . The boys called it the snow castle and a reporter for the _ Post _ wrote a piece about it even before it was finished . Boys of all grades , from the primary up , had their `` fingers in the pie '' ; for the very youngest could roll big snowballs on the smooth lawns of the Parade at noon when the sun was warm , and draw them to the site of the castle on their sleds after school was over for the day . The bigger boys built up the walls , set in the round windows of ice , which were frozen each night in washtubs and brought carefully to the castle . The doorway was a huge arch , with a sheet of ice set in at the top like a fanlight over an old-fashioned front door . A flat roof was made of planks , with snow shoveled upon them and tramped down .