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A HISTORY OF THE OAKLAND SCHOOLS From the settling of Oakland until the time the following poem,was written there were several small school houses in and around Oaklandg ee Some! were private homes, and others buildings constructed for school houses. Onejschool was near the present Berry School, another on one side of the square, still another back of the present john Harmon residence. One was located on the corner of 'the yard of Dr. C. W. Snyder, and another, The Little Red School House, was located 'where .the house is that was recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clement. Most of these schools were supported by subscriptions. The last one mentioned was the first to be supported by taxation. ' ' I W . The following poem was 'written by Miss Anna'Rutherford, class of 1883, and read at the Alumni meeting the year the brick building was torn down in 1903. This building stood on the lot where the Ellis Coffey and Edgar Ashmore resi- dences now stand. - L' The new building spoken of in this poem is the one which the grade and high school occupied until the' spring of 1921. Since that time the ,grades have had it alone. The new building was completed and occupied in the 'fall of 1921 and-fbeginf ning with a class of nineteen in 1922 and including 1930 there, have been two hun' dred eighty' graduates from this building. i g .Q , ' ' THE oLD SCHOOL HoUsE Friends, classmates, and all who join In education's praises singing, Backward, on their golden hinges, See the gates of memory swinging, That may pass before our vision ' Panoramic pictures, bringing To us scenes in the old school house' Pain with keenest pleasure mingling. 9 First, we see the town of Oakland In the spring of 'sixtyfsix. i I The new school house is just started, And the cost thereof is fixed I . - . At ten thousand dollars. Mr. Newcomer, a Virginiang ' Is engaged to lay the brick, I Mr. John Goff is the carpenter, - Trowels, saws, and hammers click. Page Seventy-five . J
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