Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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Ifi ' ' i rL. y i OLD CENTRAL BUILDING LINCOLN BUILDING OUR PRESEN T HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING

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mmm smm DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL D E C A T U R, I N D I A N A

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WE HAVE RECORDED FIFTY YEARS WITH nCaveli incis w These are the three buildings that have been the home of the D.H.S. Ravelings. It was begun in 1910 in the old Central Building that was located where the present high school building now stands. In the fall of 1918 the high school was moved to the new building at Fifth and Adams, now known as Lincoln Building. As the school population grew, and buildings be- came unsafe, Central Building was razed to make room for the present high school building. It was occu- pied in the fall of 1939 as a Junior- Senior High School. An adequate picture of old Cen- tral was difficult to find. The pic- ture reproduced above was on a colored postcard that had been mailed March 2, 1915 by a young lady of Monroe to a girl friend in Hicksville, Ohio. A group of hunt- ers found the card, along with a few others, in an old, abandoned house in Ohio, and brought it back lo Mr. Brown. You see, in this pic- ture, the iron fence that once surrounded the school yard.