Hickory Point School, 1936

Hickory Point School, 1936

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

Forsyth (Ill.)

Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Hickory Point School students in front of the school building.

First row (left to right): Norma Jean Hockaday, Betty Ann Pope, Bob Coffman, Bobby Tilley, Jean Louise Wakefield, Wilma Brett, Helen Louise Tilley, Mary Lou Pope.

Second row: Loretta Newman, ??, Eugene Vaughan, David Pope, Donald Perkins, Otis Dean Vaughan, Donald Harshbarger, Harry Tilley, Bill Tilley.

Third row: Gwendolyn Ash, George Newman, Richard Griffith(?), Teacher-Cecil Garvin, John Thomley, Junior Creason, ??, Bill Coffman.

The Hickory Point School was formerly located on the southwest corner of US 51 North and Hickory Point Road in Forsyth, Illinois, and named for the hickory grove in which it stood. The first school building was constructed about 1858. A newer building was built in 1916, which taught grades 1-8. The school was part of the Mound-Hickory Point District #49.

During school district consolidations in 1948, Mound School was annexed into the Decatur School District, while Hickory Point became part of the Maroa School District. Hickory Point School closed after the 1952-1953 school year.

The building and land were purchased in 1954 and remodeled into a private residence. However, during the I-72 cloverleaf expansion in 1973, the school building was demolished.

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

1936

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (165).

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

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