FIRST SCHOOL

 

The first school-house was built in the township about 1839, near the farm of "William T. Jackson, and the first teacher was Miss Harriet "Wilson,, who afterward married Mr. Brooks Beeson.

The school- house was a small structure, built of round logs and covered with clapboards, and contained a puncheon floor. Among the first school teachers who taught in the township were, Warren Shedd (afterward county treasurer of Mercer county, and but recently deceased); John Nevius, and Miss Lucy Wilson, now Mrs. T. B. Cabeen.

History of Mercer & Henderson Counties

 

 

 

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