Longview School - District No. 7 - Sand Creek Township
Longview was in the extreme southeast corner of Meade County, just two miles west of the Clark County line and two miles north of the Oklahoma Border. Englewood was the address of the officers and many of the students. The school was formed May 31, 1885, on Section 3-T35-R36 on land owned by Wolford Wyatt, and held school there until 1939. It was disorganized January 5, 1946, and became District 79 and was disorganized in 1950, then attached to Joint Union (Meade & Clark Counties) then 220 (Clark County.)
The school is sometimes referred to as Longview, sometimes Seminery.
Clearlake was also in District #7, but was said to be a different school, but maps show it in the same location. Many things are a mystery about this school.
There was a Public Auction held on Monday, July 22, 1946, for the purpose of selling the Longview school and all it's fixtures.
The schoolhouse was listed as 28 x 38 ft., also sold was a barn and 2 outdoor toilets, a merry-go-round, piano, furnace stove, teacher's desk and chair, 20 desks, sand table, dictionary and stand, Coleman lantern, bookcase and books, pump, 80 ft. of pipe and cylinder and other miscellaneous items..
Teachers of Longview School
Alice Lane - 1890 - 1891
Lizzie Smith - 1890 - 1891
Alice Graham - 1891
Florence Smith - 1892 - 1893
Lizzie Moffitt - 1893 - 1894
Mrs. M.P. Petefish - 1893 - 1894
Maggie Smith - 1902
Sue Painter - 1904 - 1905
Claude Pinnick - 1904 - 1905
Hilga Kargh - 1905 - 1906
Mrs. LL Gregory -
Margaret Cowan - 1913 - 1914
Gertrude Snyder - 1914 - 1915
John Cole - 1915 - 1916
Lillie Bryan - 1917 - 1918
Maude Goodnight* - 1918 - 1919
Iona M. King* - 1919 - 1920
Myrtle Haver* - 1920 - 1921
Maude Goodnight - 1921 - 1922
Avis Demmitt - 1922 - 1923
Iva F. Sickels* - 1923 - 1925
Avis Demmitt - 1925 - 1926
Mrs. Ruth Dingess - 1926 - 1927
Jamie K. Stamper - 1926 - 1927
Rose Heinz* - 1927 - 1928
Velma Mayberry* - 1927 - 1928
Bertha Ratliff* - 1928 - 1929
Bennet Connet* - 1929 - 1931
Fern Vincent* - 1931 - 1932
Mary Craig* - 1932 - 1933
Opal Haver* - 1933 - 1934
Viola Hinks - 1934 - 1935
Lillie Ricord* - 1934 - 1937
Frances Craig* - 1937 - 1939
*indicates Seminary teachers
Surnames of students that attended Longview school over the years:
Brown, Butler, Cheney, Clarke, Cothran, Craig, Drake, Eichler, Fisher, Fox, Frame, Fullerton, Goodnight, Gregory, Harris, Hart, Haver, Hines, Hink, Horford, Hyatt, Jackson, Jantz, Johnston, Krider, Lacer, Lemmons, Littig, Maffit, Morris, Nelson, Norton, Orem, Parks, Parsons, Plaster, Scarbrough, Shackelford, Smith, Sturdy, Taylor, Thompson, Unruh, Walker, Wardlow, Williams, and Wyatt.