Center Ridge - Maroa, Illinois

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Center Ridge - Maroa, Illinois

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Center Ridge School was located midway between Maroa and Warrensburg, three miles west of Emery. It was built in 1860 and closed in 1947, as part of the Maroa-Forsyth School District consolidation. The school building was sold for $900 in November 1947.

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Center Ridge Schoolhouse, near Maroa, Illinois
Center Ridge Schoolhouse, near Maroa, Illinois.

Center Ridge School was located midway between Maroa and Warrensburg, three miles west of Emery. It was built in 1860 and closed in 1947, as part of the Maroa-Forsyth School District consolidation.…

Center Ridge School, 1917
Center Ridge School, 1917.

Back row (left to right): Walter Luckenbill, Martha Haines, Buela Lantern, Rose Reed, Bernice Reed, Miss Harding (teacher), Rhea Reed, Irene Walters, Maxine Lyman, Otis Reed, Robert Lyman.

Middle row: Edwin Braden, ?…

Center Ridge Sunday school class
Center Ridge School was located midway between Maroa and Warrensburg, three miles west of Emery. It was built in 1860 and closed in 1947, as part of the Maroa-Forsyth School District consolidation. The school building was sold for $900 in November…

Center Ridge School students at recess
Alvetta Harris, the only girl enrolled in Center Ridge school, stands by and watches while the other pupils play leap frog. Alvetta entered the school this semester to make it a coeducational school instead of a boys' school. The boys from left to…

Center Ridge School, 1924
Caption: "Photo, Courtesy of Ernest Braden

Taken 57 years ago at Center Ridge School southwest of Maroa, pupils are front, l. to r., Grant Ross, Elwood Hanes, Henry Holderness.
Second, Ernest Braden, Pearl Holderness, Edna --, Leslie Ross, --…

Center Ridge School, c. 1930
Front row Left to right: Warren Hastings, Wendel Hastings, Robert Reed.

Second row: Stella Halicki (Weingard), Dorothy J. Braden (Cisco), Wanda Reed (Agee), Alreva Fairchild, William Berry, Eugene Allen, Peter Halicki, Elwood Allen, Dorothea…

Center Ridge School students, 1915
Front row: Rhea Reed, Maxine Lyman, Rhonetta Lyman, Walter Glosser, Walter Luckenbill, Otis Reed, Martha Haines, Helen Crossman, Robert Lyman, Chan Glosser.

Back row: Rose Reed, (?),Ruth Lehman, Mae Braden, Bernice Wykoff (teacher), Bernice Reed.

Center Ridge School, n.d.
Center Ridge School was located midway between Maroa and Warrensburg, three miles west of Emery. It was built in 1860 and closed in 1947, as part of the Maroa-Forsyth School District consolidation. The school building was sold for $900 in November…
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