Center Point 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="#FF99FF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="047c8c00egcemh.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FF99FF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Center Point School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B> </B><B>  </B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Center Point"><U><B>Center Point</B></U></A></div> <div> Center Point school was located at the northeast corner of Locust and County Road 80.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09e620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Miss Emma Starr has been teaching at Center Point this winter; she will return to Iowa with her father.</div> <bR> <div> Miss Emma Starr's school, at Center Point, closed on Friday of last week.  She had an exhibition at night;</div> <div> the exercises were splendid and the house was crowded.</div> <div> March 12, 1885, <I>The Carthage Press</I>, Maple Grove Items.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09e620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Center Point school will begin September 21, with Miss Blanche Alexander as teacher.</div> <div> <I>The Carthage Press, Thursday, September 10, 1914.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09e620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Center Point school closed in 1952.  The building was used for hay storage and was torn down a few years ago.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Source: Melba Hansen McCune, Echos of School Bells by Helen Katherine Hunter.</I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>