1898 Pleasant Valley School students

Title

1898 Pleasant Valley School students

Subject

Maroa (Ill.)
Macon County (Ill.)
one-room schoolhouses
Rural schools

Description

Pleasant Valley School students on September 23, 1898, by original wood school house. This building burned down sometime prior to 1902 and was replaced with a brick building.

Top row (left to right): Mattie Camey, teacher, Elva Milnes, Arthur Dunkel, Della Davis.

Center row: Charles Malone, Ethel Luckenbill, Vera Lymna, Jennie Luckenbill, Grace Dunkel, Zelia Eaglin, Caroline Dunkel, John Stuart.

Front row: Ralph Eaglin, Ed Milnes, Earl Lyman, Carl Dunkel, Charlie Lyman, Henry Luckenbill, Fred Luckenbill, John Milnes.

The Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse was located 3.5 miles south of Maroa on Route 51 in Macon County, Illinois. The school was open from c. 1881-1934. It became part of the Maroa-Forsyth Unit District in 1947, and the buildings and land were sold at auction. The buildings were later torn down, and the land returned to farm ground.

Creator

unknown

Source

Remembering Maroa FaceBook Page

Date

1898

Format

JPG

Language

English

Identifier

2023-1140

Original Format

black and white newspaper clipping

Files

Pleasant Valley photo 1898.jpeg

Citation

unknown, “1898 Pleasant Valley School students,” MF School Archives, accessed April 30, 2024, https://mftest.omeka.net/items/show/214.

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