Mitchell High School - Gold and Blue Yearbook (Mitchell, IN)

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I' A 1 C UPC Q5 U. , SALVATION ARMY 1906 fi SECOND BAPTIST 1866 PRESBYTERIAN 1855 lun ' 'iff' CHURCH OF CHRIST 1874 CHRISTIAN 1906 X Qx ft 4 A ' -I , A TIF 'hu '9 !. ' ' A '- , , C C5 'P w is 2 - zifaf 5 NAZARENE 1916 SECOND METHODIST 1870

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l 'NSIW' ...O 0 METHODIST CHURCH 1855 .,-4 2 - ,. .Q CHURCH OF COD 1951 1 Q, - l 'fi f '11AV ,155 , V. I -.al-JD ,QA .nz ,,,., . ST. MARY CATHOLIC 1869 1 Q-fc 1 1 'ff PILGRIM HQLINESS 1910 BAPTIST 1863

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fQ,.,,,,,,1 of our SCM... WifcAe!! 566006 District and Select Schools were the only institutions of learning in Mit- chell before the first Mitchell public school was built in 1869. The Baptist Seminary, founded by Simpson Burton, was started in 1860. The Presbyterian Church started the Mitchell Select School fpicture not shownj in 1865. Today's Second Baptist Church was the first school house in Mitchell and was started as a District School in 1855. The Southern Indiana Normal College was built in Mitchell in 1880 and was destroyed by fire in 1900. The first graded schools were built in 1869 at the corner of 9th and Warren Street and in 1870 on east Oak Street fthe school on east Oak Street was the Dunbar school and was used until 19311. The old Emerson Building served as a high school fand grade schoolj from 1879 to 1903. The Riley Building Qtoday a grade school, was the high school from 1903 to 1916. The present high school was built in 1916 with additions made to the building in 1922, 1927 and 1949. In 1922 the old gym was converted into class rooms and a new building was built to house the Emerson Building and gymnasium. In 1940 an annex was built to connect the high school building with the gymnasium. In 1949 an addition was made on the west side of the high school build- ing. This addition contains a cafe- teria, kitchen, auditorium, and agricultural class room.