American School Souvenir, 1903-04

American School Souvenir, 1903-04

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

one-room schoolhouses

Maroa (Ill.)

A souvenir from the American School, 1903-04, which contains a photograph of teacher, Bertha Ritchie.

The Amerian School, built in 1874, was located three miles east of Maroa. The school was consolidated into the Maroa-Forsyth School District in 1948 and closed after the 1950-1951 school year. In 1952, the schoolhouse was sold and moved a quarter of a mile to be used as a farm toolshed.

The caption from the Prairie Post newspaper clipping reads "Courtesy of Mrs. George Stormer.

A photograph of the late Mrs. Bertha Funk of Maroa is on one of the souvenirs she gave her pupils about 65 years ago.

American School was three miles east of Maroa. The one-room building had one teacher who taught grades one through ten.

One redeeming feature of the system was that younger children learned much from listening to class recitations of the more advanced students."

Prairie Post Newspaper, 1967-12-14

1903-04

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (33).

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Souvenir
American School
District No. 4
Township No. 18
Macon County, Illinois
1903-1904
Presented by Bertha Rithie, Teacher
Directors
W. D. Creamer
J. A. Barnett
Charley Thomas
A. A. Jones, Co. Supt.
Names of Pupils
DeWitt Smith
Marie Smith
Cora Smith
Stanley Creamer
Hazel Creamer
Wray Creamer
Edna Creamer
Dessie Berger
Marie Berger
Harry Berger
Pearl Berger
Myrtle Berger
Linnie Gardner
Paul Gardner
Josephine Gardner
Earl Gardner
Ina Gardner
Josie Cade
Mattie Cade
Willie Thomas
Harry Thomas
Fred Thomas
Esther Rainey
Ruth Rainey
Dave Rainey
Urban Hahn
Orval Barnett