Fair Play School, c. 1910

Fair Play School, c. 1910

one-room schoolhouses

Rural schools

Macon County (Ill.)

Maroa (Ill.)

Fair Play School, c. 1910.

Front row (left to right): Edith Malone (Bolen), Mary Barrowman (Munson), Ethel Allen (Good), Harry Allen, Delbert Lazell, John Malone, Ott Malone.

Back row: Teacher-Mabel Thrift, Ruth Malone (Moore), Bernard McGuire, Wendell Malone, Elwood McGuire.

Fair Play School was located in Section 36 of Maroa Township, a half-mile east of Emery. The first schoolhouse was in existence prior to 1874. At some point, the old schoolhouse was replaced with a newer building.

Fair Play School was consolidated in the Maroa-Forsyth School District for the 1947-1948 school year and was closed after the 1949-1950 school year. The school building was sold in November 1953.

Macon County Memories, Herald & Review, 2015, p. 97.

Prairie Post [newspaper], 1960 June 30.

Prairie Post [newspaper]

c. 1910

Photo donated by Rosemary Malone (Herald and Review). Photo courtesy of Wendell Malone (Prairie Post)

Rural schools of Macon County. (1978). (F. S. White, Ed.). Macon County Historical Society (140).

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