Flood School students, 1935

Flood School students, 1935

Rural schools

one-room schoolhouses

Forsyth (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Front row, left to right: Richard Parler and Robert Malone.

Second row: Dean March, Norma Jean Stuard, Eugene Henderson, Charles Parlier, Peggy Ann Rainey, Janet Sibthorp, Barbara March, Patty March.

Back row: Mrs. Blanche Fisher, teacher, Juanita March, Betty Ann Leinhart, Leonard Albert, Robert James, Keith Brett, Elmer James.

Flood School was located about 1.5 miles north of Forsyth on the west side of Rt 51. It was built in 1881 by Henry Flood and closed in 1942. The schoolhouse and property were sold in 1948.

Hickory Point Township Schools [binder]. Local history collection. Forsyth Public Library, Forsyth, Illinois

1935

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (142).

Allen, L. M. (n.d.). The Last Recitation Bench. (C. C. McCartney, Ed.).

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