Center Ridge School students, 1915

Center Ridge School students, 1915

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

Maroa (Ill.)

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 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.

Digitized by T. Horve from original photograph of R. A. [Braden] Wilson, 2021.

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (100).

1915

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2023-1019

black and white photo