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Blue School was built in 1872 and closed in 1948, when it was consolidated into the Maroa-Forsyth School District. The building was sold in Spetember 1956.

Caption: "Photo, Courtesy of Mrs. Omar Stonebraker

Pupils in Blue School, in 1914 were…

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.

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…

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, --…

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 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…

Front row (left to right) - Hal Hanks, Dorothy Hanks (Reed), Leslie Mathias, Ben Parlier, Esther Balazar (Blazer).

Second row: Reva Keagle, George Wise, Paul Hanks, Nellie Parlier (Creg), Fred Wise, Guy Lienhart, Bess Banks (Little).

Back row:…

Front row (left to right): Carlos Kincaid, Elmer James, Elizabeth Braden, Betty Lienhart, Keith Brett, Imogene Blazer, Audry Kincaid.

Middle row: Richard Kincaid, ? HIdden, Bob James, Imogene Malone, Alberta Cotton, Lawrence Blazer.

Back row:…

Front row, left to right: Richard Parler and Robert Malone.

Second row: Dean March, Norma Jean Stuard, Eugene Henderson, Charles Parlier, Peggy Ann Rainey, Janet Sibthorp, Barbara March, Patty March.

Back row: Mrs. Blanche Fisher, teacher,…

From left to right: Richard Parlier, Mrs. Blanche Fisher, (the only teacher most of the children had ever known), ? Malone, Donnie Swank, Charles Parlier, "Bobby" Malone.

Seated in front of table: Norma Swank.

These were some of the last pupils…