Saturday, February 11, 2012

Montgomery County Illinois Schools

Litchfield School District History
The centennial period for Litchfield is a remarkable one in the beginning, development, organization and forward-looking outreach of the Litchfield Public School System. Under a special charter from the Legislature, Litchfie...

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Old High School, Now Beckemeyer
Begins Its 75 Year History by Tom Bliss        While plans were being made in April 1904 for the commencement exercises for the last class of high school students to graduate from the old South Sch...

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Edison's Four-Score History
City's Second Common School by Tom Bliss        For 80 years the Old South School, later named in honor of Thomas A. Edison the electrical wizard, served as Hillsboro's second voter-approved "commo...

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Beckemeyer Joins History
Echos from the past by Tom Bliss        Beckemeyer Grade School, scheduled to join the old Hillsboro Academy, Winhold and Edison schools as a part of the past, will celebrate its 75th year of servi...

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Witt Illinois Public School History
The first school in Witt Township was a contribution school taught by Gay in an abandoned cabin seventeen feet square on East Fork Creek near the Browns. A contribution school was provided whenever parents felt the need of a...

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