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Photograph of Willow Lane school students by the schoolhouse, taken October 18, 1897.

Front row (left to right): Floyd Grady, Lloyd Grady, Harry Mendenhall, Ray Miller, Grover Hoff, Elmer Geiling, John Shoemaker, Walter Grady, Hubert…

Notes regarding the Willow Lane School which became part of the Maroa-Forsyth School District during the 1947 school district consolidations.

Information includes many teachers' names.

Virgil Wikoff oral history of early Maroa Schools, 1976, done as part of the bi-centennial year celebration.

The finding aid for the Valerie Keith Papers, which were donated to the MF School Archives in 2022 and contain school records for Maroa High School and Prairie Chapel School.

Photograph of Upper Ridge School students, c. 1931 with teacher Lela Davenport.

Upper Ridge School was located 2.5 miles west of Maroa and named for the high ridge of land where it sat in the west/northwest part of the Maroa township. The original…

Upper Ridge School, 1952-53 school year.

Seated (left to right): ? ? , Beth Ann Leimbach, Burrill Duggans, Bradley Lienhart, William R. Leimbach, Jimmy Truelove, Cynthia Sue Heinz.

Standing: David M. Uhrich, Carol Lynn Woodruff, Mary Ruth…

Upper Ridge School was located 2.5 miles west of Maroa and named for the high ridge of land where it sat in the west/northwest part of the Maroa township. The original school was built c. 1850. A newer building was constructed on the same land in…

Back row: Bernadine Brown, Patty Smith (Teacher), Ernestine Howell. Middle row: Elwood Brown, unknown, Steve Reeser, Dean Seeley. Front row: Darlene Brown, Rosemary Reeser, Ruth Ann Braden, Don Westerman, Bob Braden

Students identified, left to right: Della James, Ann Karban, Ruth Ann Braden, Rosemary Reeser, Bob Braden.

Upper Ridge School was located 2.5 miles west of Maroa and named for the high ridge of land where it sat in the west/northwest part of the…

Two students building float, Centennial, Maroa, IL, 1954. Students are Ruth McIlvenna and Allan Alexander.