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

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jim, ' :JL .Ad-.N.M,,..,.,......f-r' The dIscovery of the land that IS now OhIo may be at trIbuted to the same motIve that led Columbus to dlscover lndIa ln l669 La Salle left Lake Erle and accompanved by twenty men and a Shawnee guIde floated south on one of the FIVQTS the presumptlve evldence favormg the Musk Ingum In the wInter of l67O he slghted the OhIo as It maIestIcally flowed through channels of forests ln l77O George Washlngton started on a trIp down the OhIo RIver to see and to mark the boundarIes of the VIrgInIa regIments bounty lands at the Kanawha RIVEF AccompanIed by a party of nnne men he left the PItts burgh area on October l7 l77O They spent the fIrst nIght at Logstown the second nIght on a spot near East LIver poo Washvngtons party sought a suItable campIng Slle for the nlght Nearmg the present West VIrgInIa shore east of what IS now Chester the scouts precedmg the flat boat on whIch Washmgton was Fldlng landed on the shore and after a brIef search re embarked and paddled across the stream to the north Slde On observmg a level spot at what IS now the upper port of East End of East LIverpool the scouts pulled ashore and fIred several shots to attract the attentIon of WashIngton and hIs companlons They come over and camped for the nIght On the followIng day they burIed a barrel of bIscuIts on the Island now known as ...,.,,.-v-----' T335 54:-I Babbs In order to lIghten the overloaded boat and con tInue theIr Iourney turned to VIrgInIa and made hIs report Hls descrIptIon of the wealth along the OhIo RIver was Instrumental In arous Ing the peoples desIre to coIonIze here NeIther dId WashIngton nor La Salle nor Indeed the many other explorers who reached the shores of the OhIo know that they were In the mIdst of what was to be the Pottery Center of the World Nor could they DICTUVE a prosperous llttle town place of the cIrclIng hIlls and towerIng forests whIch then covered our shores The small settlement whIch started on these shores brought the need of a school The hIstory of East Llver pool s publIc schools IS a dramatlc account of the develop ment of an educahonal system from a one room log cabIn constructed In 1820 or the SITE of the present Central School on East Fourth street to a school plant of twenty buIldIngs Terra Jones pIoneer educator was the fIrst teacher In the log cabIn school retaInIng hIs post from l82O to l832 The fIrst common school In the cIty was a red brIck structure of one room whIch supplanted the log cabIn l848 A two story brIck buIldIng contaInIng four rooms was buIlt at Fourth and UNION streets In l85l but It was so un stable that the teachers were forced to dIsmIss classes at the approach of a storm l ltl 1 , 4 asf A f. 2 ttfgflzf 5 Q. , ' I Kill it F America, namely, the hope of finding a shorter route to After examining the rich, fertile land, Washington re- . . , . , , ' ln A ' ' I. , 4 ' ' ' , , ' ' in