East Liverpool High School - Keramos Yearbook (East Liverpool, OH)

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10 Keramna now occupied by the Pennsylvania Com- pany with their side tracks and freight yard on XVest Market street. This school house had log puncheon floors, an open fire place for log fires, the windows were made of greased parchment, for there was no window glass in time, and is said to have been a very courteous and affablc gentleman. The Fawcett, Smith, McKinnon, Simms, Davidson and other pioneer children at- tended this school. Later the two lots on which the Central School building is now located were donated by Fawcett JW. i FAWCETT MONUMENT. RIVERVIEW CEMETERY those days. The benches were made from logs with round poles for backs. The tirst teacher was the old surveyor, Terra Jones, who was one of the government surveyors who assisted john lleaver in surveying the first seven ranges of the North- west Territory. Terra jones was an Irishman with more than ordinary education for that and Pemberton for school purposes, for which it has ever since been used. The first log structure gave place to the old four room brick building, which was torn down when the Central Building was erected. The old four room structure served as Primary, First and Second Reader Grade, Third and Fourth Read- er Grade and High School, or Master's Room, where the master and many

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Krramna 9 Historical Sketch 0 East Liverpool Its Schools and Pioneers ' l BY C. W. RoB1NsoN, '12 ILLUSTRATIONS AND DATA 1 COURTESY J. H. SIMMS BOUT 1797, the Fawcetts. www! Smiths, Boyces, Mcliinnons and l-Iickmans came from Washing- ton county, Pa., and settled in and about what is now East Liverpool. It is said that some of the families, at least some of the male members, came over into the Northwest Territory a few years earlier. during the Whiskey Rebellion, with which they were more or less promi- nently identified. The wilderness on the north side of the Ohio was found to be a good hiding place from the troops lfVashington sent to suppress and subdue the insurrection. The Indian occupants had nearly all moved westward beyond the Maumee. They found the land splendid, the timber IH21g'llllICCllt,VVCll watered, with game of all kinds in abun- dance. Thomas Fawcett and joseph Smith, who married Abigail Fawcett, purchased about 1100 acres fronting on the Ohio river from l3abb's Island to the mouth ot jethro Run. joseph Smith built a cabin on the banks of the Ohio River, a little east of what is now Union street, while Thomas Fawcett built quite a good sized cabin on the high ground immediately west of the present XVest End ball park. commanding a grand view down the river as far as Wellsville. and up the river as far as the famous Indian resort, now beautiful and legend? ary Rock Springs Park, at the north end of the old Indian Catawba Trail. Thomas Fawcett, with the assistanceiof the pioneer surveyor, Terra Jones, laid out a village in 1798, which was called Fawcettstown. Prior to the coming of the pioneers named above, there was a block house and a small settlement near the foot of Broadway and Union streets, which was called St, Clair. The old state road from the mouth of the Little Beaver to the mouth of Big Yellow Creek, was just ai bridle path along the bank of the north shore of the Ohio, and was traveled between the block house and the river. ln 1824, Thomas Fawcett and his partner, james Pemberton, sold all their holdings of lots in Liverpool, as well as Fawcett's homestead and farm, to Claiborne Simms, Sr. This tract ol lanl embraced all the territory from the west side of Market street, beginning at the Ohio River to a point along the old Calcutta Roal as far as Gardendale, thence on a line west crossing Carpen- ter's Run at the Stone Ilridge, and up to the crest of Croft's Hill, thence south to the mouth of Jethro Run and up the river to the place of beginning. Claiborne Simms took possession in 1824 and erected a grist mill on the west bank of Carpenters Run, opposite West End l.'ottery, where he built a large log house as a home for himself, his wife and numerous children. The First School House. The first school house was of a log construction, and was erected on land

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jj .xg Keraninn 1 1 old time teachers wielded the birch and hickory wands, as long as that kind of discipline was necessary in securing good conduct and higher education, ending with Algebra and Geometry. The evolu- tion of East Liverpool schools from the old log school house on VVest Market erected, an illustration of which is shown in this number. This memorial stone is a tribute to the memory of Thomas Faw- cett, secured and paid for by the late james H. 'Goodwin and other descend- ants of the grand old pioneer, who was ever thoughtful for the education of the ' 'W ---K 0 fum HISTORICAL VIEWS OF EAST LIVERPOOL street to the coming of the new SlSI25,000 High School would make an interesting history of itself. I Fawcetfs Memorial Tablet. Thomas Faweett's remains were laid to rest in the old burying ground at the west end of Fifth street, where they rested until a few years ago, when they were removed to Riverview Ceme- tery, and a beautiful granite tablet was youth in this neighborhood. Mr. Fawcett also donated the two lots on XVest Fourth street for church purposes, now occupied by the St. Stevens Episcopal church and parish. Pioneer Pottery. Another illustration in this number of Keramos shows the Pioneer Pottery of James and Edwin Bennett, built in 1839, on the banks of the Ohio River, at the