Five Mile School (Butler School) - District No. 5

Records indicate that Five Mile School was organized in late 1885. This school was in the southeast corner of Meade County barely a mile and a half from the Clark County line. The school itself was located in the NW/4 of Section 14-T34-R26 in Sand Creek Township.

We don't have much on this school. It ran from the 1880's until the end of the term in 1938. If we have a photo of the school building, we haven't been able identify it.

The school apparently got it's name from the creek that ran through that section. To this day there is a Butler (or Five Mile) Cemetery in section 15 just west of the school location.

Teachers of Five Mile School

Anna Wenta - 1919 - 1920

Joe Hickey -1920 - 1921

Ruth B. Small -1921 - 1923

Lillie Powell -1923 - 1924

Ida L. Holdeman -1924 - 1926

Hazel Butler -1926 - 1927

Ivy Hickey -1927 - 1928

Eva Landrum - 1928 - 1931

Letha Clawson - 1931 - 1932

Fern Wolfe - 1932 - 1933

Mary Jane Ashcraft - 1933 - 1935

Mary Jane Easterday - 1935 - 1936

Surnames of students that attended Five Mile school over the years:

Butler, Collins, Easterday, Eichler, Herman, Johnston, Landrum, Maxes, Murphy, Norton, Painter, Plaster, Poffinberger, Shepherd, Stacy, Stout, Tucker and Winn.