Independence Schoolhouse

Independence Schoolhouse

Rural schools

one-room schoolhouses

Forsyth (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Independence School District #33 was 1.5 miles east of Forsyth on the south side of County Highway 20. The school opened prior to 1880 and was formed to stay "independent" of the Forsyth school.

Independence School closed in 1940.

"Problems of one-room school keep growing." (1941, January 26). The Decatur Daily Review (3).

1941

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (171).

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2023-1103

newspaper photograph