Center Ridge School, 1924

Center Ridge School, 1924

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

Maroa (Ill.)

one-room schoolhouses

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, -- Westhaffer, Cora Fornwalt.
Third, Hattie Fornwalt (Mrs. Wm. Newman, Argenta), Ray Ross, Frank Fornwalt, Mabel Stout (Bowles) teacher, Howard Hanes, Viola Ross, Sammy Westhaffer. "

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.

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

Prairie Post newspaper clipping. n.d.

1924

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

JPG

2023-1017

black and white photo