1898 School - Mc Clave Co

by Lynn Sprowl

Title

1898 School - Mc Clave Co

Artist

Lynn Sprowl

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

1898 School - Mc Clave Co, 1898 by Lynn Sprowl
One thing about photography, is that you learn so much during your research. I found out that the woman that first taught these children, was named Ms. Fannie Brown...Can you imagine naming a child "Fannie" in these days???
In 1898 a small group of homesteaders gathered to discuss forming a new school district and the building of a school house. Elijah G. Wood volunteered to donate land and it was decided to make the building of stone as plenty of stone was available from the foundation of the Fort Bent building which had already been dismantled.
All work was donated except one stone mason was hired to lay the outside walls, a carpenter to do the woodwork and a plasterer to do the plastering.
The building was completed the latter part of August 1898.
Miss Fannie Brown (who, later, became Mrs. George Paterson), agreed to teach a four month school in her own home until the new building could be equipped. The people of the district agreed to pay Miss Brown's salary of forty dollars a month out of that year's crops.
As soon as the requirements had been met a new district was officially organized and was called Star and was number eleven in Bent County. This district extended over most of the southern half of township twenty-two with the Arkansas River as the southern boundary. Approximately forty teachers taught at the Star school. Their school terms varied from 6 to 9 months and their salaries varied from forty dollars a month to two hundred and forty dollars a month. The first teacher was Mr. Charley Johnson and Mrs. Grace Johnson was the last teacher. The school consolidated with McClave in 1952.

Uploaded

September 17th, 2018

Colors

Embed

Share

Tags