Hawthorne School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#996633" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="171c8c00ddvuxr.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#996633" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Hawthorne School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B> </B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Carthage"><U><B>Carthage School</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hawthorne"><U><B>Hawthorne School</B></U></A></div> <div> Benton School Site Enlarged</div> <div> Carthage, June 17--The purchase from C. B. Gammon, former mayor of Carthage, now residing</div> <div> at Long Beach, Calif., of three lots in the block which has been chosen for the new Benton</div> <div> school building, which was closed yesterday by the school board, give the board of education</div> <div> the entire block except one lot at the northeast corner, and makes the new school lot measure</div> <div> 580 by 390 feet.  The board pays $1,000 for the lots.  Mr. Gammon had formerly asked $1,500.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Joplin News Herald, </I>June 17, 1921</div> <div> <I>This would be the site of the new Hawthorne School located in the Benton School District,</I></div> <div> <I>this area in the northwest part of Carthage was referred to as Cassil Place.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="19a300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Hawthorne school was built in 1921-1922 and opened in the fall of 1922.  At this time it contained</div> <div> 12 rooms.  The name was selected by the Benton School District Parent-Teacher association.  Of</div> <div> all of the national characters suggested, Hawthorne was considerable the most popular in voting.</div> <bR> <div>  The school was closed in 1997 and torn down in 1999.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>