The Valley Grove School was located in Sand Creek Township in the NE/4 of NE/4 of Sec. 25-T34-R27, on land owned by R.M. Painter. The school was organized May 15, 1886, and disorganized January 5, 1946... however there was no school at this location after 1932. The district became part of #77, then disorganized and became part of #79, and later consolidated with 226 Unified, and students were sent to Meade, Englewood and #26 (Sunny Dale.)
Bertha Campbell - 1890 - 1891
Nettie O. Campbell - 1891 - 1892
Ella Schmoker - 1892
Carrie Painter - 1893
Carrie Campbell - 1893
Maude Bayless - 1901
Emily Painter - 1904 - 1905
Gertrude Butler - 1905 - 1906
Jay Glass - 1913 - 1914
Dorothy Snul - 1914 - 1915
Vora S Hammond - 1915 - 1916
Hetty Fay Markley - 1916 - 1918
Emma Schaefer - 1918 - 1919
Rhoda Basinger - 1919 - 1920
Faith Chambers - 1920 - 1921
Abbie Bodle - 1921 - 1922
Hazel Ross - 1922 - 1923
Rhoda Basinger - 1923 - 1924
May Staley - 1924 - 1925
Emily Pinnick - 1925 - 1926
Bertha Ratzlaff - 1926 - 1928
Norvella Ratzlaff - 1928 - 1930
Josie Bohling - 1930 - 1932
We are missing the years of 1905-1915
Bohling, Booman, Dick, Gifford, Grover, Hall, Harrison, Hemphill, Hodson, Hulbert, Johannesn, Johnson, Kitchin, Klotz, Littig, McDermott, Miller, Oram, Painter, Pemberton, Pillsbury, Ratzlaff, Richardson, Sell, Taylor, Thompson, Tumar, VanDuesen, West, Wilson, and Windsor.
Valley Grove School in 1904. Winnie Thompson, Ethel Wilson, Marie Wilson, Perry Wilson, Andrew Wilson, Nellie Thompson, Magie Smith (teacher?), Etna Thompson, Frank Hodson.
The map from the 1909 Meade County Plat Book shows how large the school district was (grey dotted line) and the location of the school. This was a sparsely populated area of Meade County in 1886.
The more modern map shows the school in relation to roads and other schools in the area. To put it in perspective, Englewood is about 10 miles east of the county line on EE road.
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