Center Ridge Sunday school class

Center Ridge Sunday school class

Rural churches

one-room schoolhouses

Maroa (Ill.)

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

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. A community Sunday School was held for a number of years in the school. Later a church was built two miles west of Emery.

Back of photo reads: "Center Ridge Sunday school class, L-R front: Blanche Linehart Lyman, Cousin Viola Lyman (Ross) teacher, Margaret Linehart Glosser; back: Clarence Berry, James Berry, George Lyman, Edward Lyman.

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. A community Sunday School was held for a number of years in the school. Later a church was built two miles west of Emery.

Center Ridge School students [portrait]. Berry family genealogical papers. MF School Archives, Maroa, Illinois

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

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