Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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E a TYQIYBEIQ5- Q1 We El13l3lE2zQlQBoeX r W2 lf'5?,11Tl:?llEl7 Sclzo ol. t Cor?PmL2cl 9174 E'dlTE.cl 'BJ Bmiigfrd lp as and iEl2mlp7'Rl '2 LLB 7 'Bufsm ass' awww? i L a te r the white 1 mm M I ,1 man came N to star. The ,umkscua X XQ, . i first house was 5 7? built 'by VVillia1n Q Qh A if ilk Priddy and his sons ,rw 2 in about 1834. They K j S bum if for Mr,Ri1ey, 5' 3 cw bf and it is thought to have ge been on the plot of ground W e 5 pi which is now on S. NVashing- -7 ton between Main and Central. The day they started building ' one of theqmen killed a deer inithe I woods about where the High bchool 1 building is now. One man found a bee 9,1 1' l J tree. Nl r. Priddy had corn on the ear, and this was all they had to eat. .,-,f ,Q ,f-xx x i - A A If ' -L-

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O U -b L3e,,irfl1iva lboolf ljqoe, enolequogeol To show ly ow Dun School.. isq pqqloglge. C.or7r7uIliTj find l'low,durgiQQ' ouq lfiq ly '5C.l,ool., dqu S me l?r.,ue, qpprqc.c,iGTl?.cl'lT1e oppopflfiqilalas q j'joqcleol 'lag u S bums cor-yguqflg. L96 H606-TalG,d G rqqlte This GQ c.or'jpLe'E Reooad og OUR-lll.2l'K5Cl?O01u olags. qqal smce.qeLqhope, -v qeansR eoqe HTQJ-L.L. 93 czeuau. pkeeserifoevvonie ' .-Xfter a fe w houses had been built. they had to ri have a school J house. liVe can find no record of the first building, but if A , L ' ' one that was built when 1552? 5 W the village was still new r if ,Q . stood on the tract of land ll? 'f' 2 3? that is now on XV. Jackson - A 2- -4 f 3? Z, Y 5 fi .,:1 ' , :gl between Iefferson and Wash- , .-z.aiS2.'C. 1 DE , , ' -i ing Streets. lt was made of logs. 1 i i ' i g, was about twenty bv thirtv, and had - ,fl if , ' ' l 1:1 , Has 51 'W 3 T: X Y - ' - - ' ' 'f ' ' - - f1l,g ::ggEE3b if c, t 'i doom in the side Ihis lJU1lClll1g'.Xl2l5 -w ..ili. 1. Q r' finally replaced by .two frame buildings K i .tx - A 5 X sjf-e 'fih D if two stories high. They were called the i LU' East and VVest Schools.