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Pleasant Valley photo 1898.jpeg
Pleasant Valley School students on September 23, 1898, by original wood school house. This building burned down sometime prior to 1902 and was replaced with a brick building.

Top row (left to right): Mattie Camey, teacher, Elva Milnes, Arthur…

1917 Pleasant Valley school.jpeg
Photograph of Pleasant Valley School students by the brick schoolhouse in 1917.

Back row: Harriet Foulke, Ad Foulke, Louise Milnes, Elsie Schultz (teacher).

Middle row: Will Foulke, Ed Foulke.

Front row: Flora Luckenbill, Edith Milnes,…

1919 Pleasant Valley School. Ed Foulke and C. B. Crabtree in back row.jpeg
Pleasant Valley School students in 1919, showing Ed Foulke and C. B. Crabtree in the back row.

The Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse was located 3.5 miles south of Maroa on Route 51 in Macon County, Illinois. The school was open from c. 1881-1934. It…

1943 Miller School.jpeg
Miller School 1943.

Miller Schoolhouse, 1943.

Formed prior to 1867 and originally named Malone School, the Miller School was located on the southwest corner of Jordan Road and 1700 E. Road (northeast of Forsyth).

The school was consolidated…

Hickory Point School 1946.jpeg
Hickory Point School, 1946.

Back row (left to right): Jack Coffman, David Gardner, Janice Randall, Jean Pope, Dick Smith, ? ?.

Bottom row: David Smith, Cleo Randall, Verna Carter, Elsie Hockaday, Miss Conners (teacher), Linda Pope, Mary…

American Schoolhouse sign.jpeg
American School, District No. 4 sign. This sign was displayed at the Maroa Sesquicentennial celebration. It is uncertain in 2023 where this sign ended up.

Columbia School notes (2023-1025).pdf
Research notes regarding the Columbia School, which was located 5 miles east, 2 miles south of Maroa (on E. Hampshire Road). The school district consolidated into the Argenta-Oreana district in 1947. The Columbia school land and building were sold in…

Columbia School, c. 1934.jpeg
Columbia School classroom, c. 1934.

Some students in this class listed as: Wilma Ferrill, Jack Groves, the Nelsons, Norma Jean Wallace, Norma Ater, Carrol, Charles, Harold, Lazarre, and Maxine Elliott.

Columbia School was located 5 miles east,…

Forsyth School, early, n.d..jpg
An early photograph of the Forsyth Schoolhouse and students.

Old Forsyth Schoolhouse with teacher and students (n.d. c. 1900).jpg
An early photograph of the early Forsyth Schoolhouse and students (n.d., estimated c. 1900)
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