Flood School students dressed for play (undated photograph)

Title

Flood School students dressed for play (undated photograph)

Subject

one-room schoolhouses
Rural schools
Forsyth (Ill.)
Macon County (Ill.)
Hickory Point (Macon County, Ill. : Township)

Description

Flood School students dressed for play.

From left to right: Roy Swartz, Walter Reeser, Josephine Reeser, Hope Blazer, Bessie Blazer, Lorena Seig, Virginia Hockaday.

Flood School was located about 1.5 miles north of Forsyth on the west side of Rt 51. It was built in 1881 by Henry Flood and closed in 1942. The schoolhouse and property were sold in 1948.

Source

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (142).

Publisher

Macon County Historical Society

Date

no date

Contributor

Photograph contributed by Janet Sibthorp Brewer.

Identifier

2023-1043

Original Format

black and white photo

Files

Flood School students dressed for play, n.d.jpg

Citation

“Flood School students dressed for play (undated photograph),” MF School Archives, accessed May 18, 2024, https://mftest.omeka.net/items/show/79.

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