Pleasant View or Merkle School - District No. 32 & 33 - Crooked Creek Township

Pleasant View was located in the northeast corner of Section 16-T30-R28, just two miles south of the northern boundary of Meade County. It is often called the Merkle school as William Merkle owned much of the surrounding land and had seven children of his own going to this school.

District 32 and 33 were both formed in September of 1886, but Dist. 32 was disorganized in 1899 and made part of Dist. 33 which was active until it was disorganized January 5, 1946... a time of school consolidation.

Teachers of Pleasant View School

Salmon, Anna - 1926 - 1928

McBee, Hazel - 1925 - 1926

Veeder, Mrs. H M - 1926 - 1927

Weaver, John - 1927 - 1928

McBee, Basil - 1928 - 1929

McBee, Eldon - 1929 - 1929

Brown, Eltha - 1929 - 1930

McBee, Helen 1930 - 1932

Copenhaver, Virlen - 1932 - 1933

Barragree, Murriel - 1933 - 1934

DeLong, Ruth 1934 - 1936

Helsel, Lewis - 1936 - 1938

Ball, Evelyn - 1938 - 1939

Crown, Rachel - 1940 - 1942

Vogt, Anna - 1942 - 1943

Surnames of students at Pleasant View school:

Brown, Bruington, Cope, Cunningham, Davis, Eacrett, Fisher, Forst, Hipp, Howell, Jantz, Johnson, Lampe, Little, Massie, McBee, Merkle, Miller, Nelson, Oden, Sefton, Shufelberger, Sinclair, Stillwell, Stoltz, Thiessen, Tice, Weller, and Wetmore.