Prairie Chapel School student newsletter, April 1939

Prairie Chapel School student newsletter, April 1939

Rural schools

one-room schoolhouses

Maroa (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

A student newspaper from the Prairie Chapel School from April 1939 that contains classroom events as well as photographs.

This newsletter and the photographs contained in it have also been scanned separately and added to the Prairie Chapel Collection on Omeka.

Prairie Chapel School was located 3 miles east and 2 miles south of Maroa. T building was built c. 1870 and also served as Epworth Chapel Church for ab‹ 20 years until the church building was constructed in 1891.
The school closed after the 1947-1948 school year and was consolidated int the Argenta-Oreana district. The building was sold in August 1949 and was later demolished.

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Valerie Keith

1939 April

Copyright has been assigned to the MF School Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Maroa-Forsvth School District. MF School Archives. Consent for publication is given on behalf of the MF School Archives as the owner of the physical items and as the owners of copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor copyright in some items in the collection may still be held by their respective creator(s).

Valerie Keith Papers finding aid

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English

collection 2022.01; item 2023-1344

white paper 8.5 x 11; pink construction paper cover