Center Ridge School, c. 1930

Center Ridge School, c. 1930

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Maroa (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

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 Lehman.

Standing: Ruth Mossbarger (Cheney), Pauline Braden (Hawkes), Ralph Hanes, Casimer Halicki, Teacher–Franklin Long, William Glosser, Dale Allen, Alice Hastings (Mayall).

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.

Donated courtesy of Lyle Cisco.

Maroa Sesquicentennial Book. (2004). Maroa Centennial Committee (171).

c. 1930

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (33).

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