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
Ruth E. Hill - 1886 - 1887
Sadie Jenkins - 1890 - 1891
Mrs. Petefish - 1891 - 1892
Agnes Barber - 1892 - 1893
Florence Smith - 1893 - 1894
Maggie Smith - 1900 - 1901
George Cole - 1904 - 1905
Olive O'Brien - 1913 - 1914
Howard Suler - 1914 - 1915
Mary L. Mahoney - 1915 - 1916
Mary L. Gearhart - 1916 - 1918
Lillie Bryan - 1918 - 1919
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.
