Old Hickory Point School building, 1912

Old Hickory Point School building, 1912

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Forsyth (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Hickory Point School, 1912. This is the older Hickory Point School building before the newer one was built c. 1916.

Left to right: Arthur Kellar, Clifford Weaver, Charles Austin, Lynn Austin, David Pope, Hal Lash, Mary Blazer, Grace Blazer, Ruth Blazer, Helen Hockaday, Teacher-Miss Martin, Ruth Hockaday, Verna Austin.

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.

Prairie Post [newspaper], 1962 August.

Macon County Historical Society

1912

photo courtesy of Mary Gaffron

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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