Upper Ridge School students, 1944

Upper Ridge School students, 1944

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

Maroa (Ill.)

one-room schoolhouses

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 1917.

Upper Ridge School was consolidated into the Maroa-Forsyth school district in the 1948 consolidations and remained open through the 1953-54 school year. The school building and land were auctioned off in 1959.

Maroa Sesquicentennial Book. (2004). Maroa Sesquicentennial Committee, (175).

1944

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Societ, (277).

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2023-1160

black and white photo