Huron High School - Tiger Yearbook (Huron, SD)

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Utah Street School, built for an elementary school In 1886 at a cost of $10,000 was located at Ninth street and Utah Avenue. Because of its unique architecture, it was often referred to as the castle. The bullding was later replaced by the cur- rent Jefferson School. The south side hi the school house is be- ing marred by the janitor throwing ashes out of the second story: window. Why don't he carry 'em into the belil'y and throw them out? They'd go a good deal Further. Huronlte March 25, 1886 4Pupils attending the first frame schoolhouse on the grounds of the school located on the east side of Wisconsin Avenue between second and Third streets The school was welleequipped with the in- dispensable blackboard? Windsor House, an early two- storv hotel, is seen in the background.

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Wm hm m: , Too many Children! Expansion needed children held classes in a saloon located on since . . . Huron Founded in 1880 It is amazing to contemplate the growth that has taken place in our Huron Public Schools since Huron was founded in 1880. Some of the changes were rapid and dramatic; others took place so gradually that they received little notice. The first train arrived in Huron at 12:30 pm. on June 25, 1880. Three months later the first school opened with 15 pupils and their teacher Watson weed was teacher the first term and Arthur Blunt taught the second half. The building no longer exists, Kansas and First Street. Farming-out of classes continued as needed during the ear- ly years with classes held in the congrega- tional Church, a bank on the southeast cor- ner of Dakota and Fourth Street, and in other locations. Need for expansion in the Huron schools was expressed in a report in 1881. Too many children! That's what the school folks are beginning, already, to say about Huron. No western cuty can stand that. We must have house room and school room for all that can be imported or raised. No young family should be discouraged through lack of school facilities. Let us all begin to think Of this matter. By the fall of 1882 the Illinois Street but a historic marker was placed on the site by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion in 1929. . Since homesteading was an attraction, the school enrollment grew in one year to 137 pupils. Obviously, it was ImpOSSIble to accommodate this number in the modest first School, In the fall of 1881 the original schoolhouse housed the primary class and a classroom was improvised in a store for Intermedlate-age children. The oldest SChOOl was opened and housed all the grades until the Utah Street School was completed in December 1886. At this time the Illinois street School became the high school. June 3, 1887, marked the date. Of thg firlst class graduating from Huron ngh, :, 5C 00. . r i A An early picture of the fourth grade in the; ,3 Hamilton school, formerly the llllhOlS street; a School at Fifth Street and Illinois Avenue. ,Al

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From depression and drought t0 renewed hope to the . . . First High School Not until the new century did Huron citizens build another school. The boom town reached a population of 3033 in 1890 but dwindled to 2793 citizens by 1900 as depression and drought drove some set- tlers from the area. With the new century, however, the rains came, and with renewed hope the hardy pioneers turned their thoughts to con- structing a high school building. In 1904 the first high school building was erected on the corner of Iowa Avenue SE. and Fourth street. 71;; 1133;; 3561:7231in ; Hamilton School, which had provided school facilities for thousands of students for 36 years, an addition was built on the north end of the high school building con. structed four years earlier. According to a Huronite edition of 1918, the following documents were placed in the cornerstone for the new high school addition: a list of teaching corps for the Huron Public Schools, a copy of the Huronite, a copy of the last annual report published by the superintendent of schools, copies of the superintendent's bulletins to teachers for the past year, and proceedings of the last meeting of ye south Dakota Education Associationgi'felix QM 0-,: , t . . 2 With therfnewly expanded ties, it'was now possible to add a junior high to the class structure in the schools using a por- ywt r In 1910 a third grade school building was built on the corner of illinois Avenue SW. and Tenth street and was known as Lincoln SchooL This building was used until 1975 when it was sold and razed. 0n the half blockjust south of the Illinois Street tHamiltoni School, a new high school was built and opened in 1914. The Iowa School was renamed Washington School and became an elementary Schools I v 4 n 1918 on the Site of the former tion Of this building. Shortly afterwards WVO more elementary schools were added. McKinley 0n Dakota Avenue North opened in 1921 followed in 1925 by Wilson School located on Montana Avenue and seventh Street S.Wi A Lincoln Grade School was built in 1910 atTenth and Illinois Avenue, Pictured are children Whlz attended a Huron College summer session he. I at the school in 19190 The building waS used W 1975 when it was razed.