The Plains High School - Yearbook (The Plains, OH)

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In a long past day when some ancient civilization flourished the mound builders lived and prospered in the vicinity now known as The Plains. Time passed and the mound builders disappeared leaving the many mounds as a token of their former habitation. For many years the American — Indians battle cry echoed over the plains as the as the various tribes fought for supremacy over the vast hunting ground. The white man came. The pale11 faced god he was called by the Indians. Smaller and smaller became the primeval hunting grounds. The ring of the ax brought the sly fox from his lair. Strange wigwams made of logs sprang up almost over night. Scarcer and scarcer became the red mans food. He became alarm- ed. He liked the bright beads and the fire water of the white man but he liked not the white man3 ambition and he fought. But in the end tho pale face won and again the peace fires of the two races mingled. By degrees the red man dis- appeared and the strange tepees of the pale face grew more and more elegant and tho wild animals fled with their red brother or perished. The farms grew as the time passed and the pioneers passed bn.the route to the frontier. A school was established. Salt mining and coal mining grew to be of some importance. With the growth of coal mining and the advance of the manufact- ure of coal the salt mines be- came non existent. As the coal industry grew so did the population. A new school was erected and later a high s chool.