Wellston High School - X Ray Yearbook (Wellston, OH)

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Early Wellston Just about the time Harvey Wells’ new town began to prosper, a nationwide depression fell over the land bringing all business to a standstill. Harvey Wells lost his furnaces anil most of his fortune. However, because of his undying enthusiasm. Harvey Wells devised a brilliant plan to lift Wellston out of its state of depression and back into the light of prosperity. By obtaining support from Francis Hinckley, a Chicago capitalist, Harvey Wells created a boom town. As news spread rapidly in all the big city papers, speculators and promoters flocked to Wellston. Soon the small town was swarming with people. The Bundy House (which is pictured as the Hogan Hotel) could hardly find enough rooms to satisfy the influx. Numerbus business operations began developing, and Wells’ vision of a New Pittsburgh in the West” gradually began to take shape. 7

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A Need to Educate s the eit) of Vi elision grew in size, more sehool fueilities were needed. To handle the growing number of sehool students Harvey Wells and South Sehool were erected. Following the construction of these buildings, the present high school building was constructed in 1924. One of the earliest sehool buildings in W elision was a ten room wooden structure huili in 1878 where the present Central Sehool building is located. The original structure of this school still remains and is presently the beautiful home of l)r. and Mrs. Paul J. Essman. 8