Amity 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=128 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="03480803.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000099" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Amity 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="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Amity"><U><B>Amity School</B></U></A></div> <div> Amity District—One and one-half miles east of Joplln; Henry Moore, L. B. Osborn and </div> <div> S. A. Hopkins, directors; L. B. Osborn, teacher. Term of six mouths began September 20th. </div> <div> District enumeration 50, enrollment over fifteen years of age 3, total 41, present 31. Building </div> <div> and furniture first-class. Seating capacity 28. In addition to school house and site the district </div> <div> property includes a good set of outline maps, a Webster's Unabridged, a nine-inch globe, </div> <div> a teacher's desk and nineteen Victor folding desks.</div> <bR> <div> <I>1878 Jasper County School Report by S. A. Underwood</I></div> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, page 104, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="114620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> The two-room Amity school house was moved from Seventh Street, one fourth-mile west of Duquesne Road,</div> <div> to the present site about 1900.  The name was officially changed to Duquesne in 1922.  Two wood-frame</div> <div> buildings housed eight grades until 1937 when the school burned.  A four-classroom brick building was built</div> <div> and opened in 1938.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Joplin Globe, Our Neighbor, April 29, 1993</I></div> <div> <I>Echoes of School Bells, Helen Katherine Hunter</I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>