Hickory Point School, 1932

Hickory Point School, 1932

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Forsyth (Ill.)

Macon County (Ill.)

Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Caption: "Work of cleaning and repairing rural school buildings in preparation for the opening of the fall term is in full swing in Macon County. Betty and Jean Weaver and Gwendolyn Jean Ash are shown with their cans of paint. The girls assisted their parents at the Hickory Point School north of Decatur."
(Decatur Herald, August 27, 1932).

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.

Decatur Herald, August 27, 1932

August 27, 1932

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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