Cedar Bluff 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="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="00bc7e33.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Cedar Bluff 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><A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cedar Bluff"><U><B>Cedar Bluff School</B></U></A></div> <div> Cedar Bluff was located about 4 miles north of Alba.  It was built in the 1860's.  The first county</div> <div> superintendent report available was for the 1872-1873 school term. The school was closed in 1950.</div> <div> Area students were sent to the Jasper or Alba school districts.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="094620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Cedar Bluffs, two miles west of Preston. Henry Hubbard, teacher. Wages $35. Forty-six pupils on register, </div> <div> average attendance twenty-seven. Small box bouse, cold and uncomfortable; good seats and maps, but </div> <div> insufficient black board. School just about an average. Cannot be much improved without a new house, </div> <div> which is much needed.</div> <div> <I>1872 Jasper County School Report by U. B. Webster, Jasper County Superintendent</I></div> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, page 101, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="094620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Former School Burns</div> <bR> <div> The building of the former Cedar Bluff school on baseline road about six miles west of US 71 or just north of Alba</div> <div> was destroyed Sunday night by fire, according to Mrs. Arthur Rice.  The building was used the last several years</div> <div> for a hay storage.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Carthage Press, November 4, 1969</I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>