Oakland 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="#CC3300" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02ac8c00dvmwjc.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#CC3300" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Oakland 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="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oakland School"><U><B>Oakland School</B></U></A></div> <div> Joseph Zorph transferred land located in Township 28, Range 32, Section 31 for a school.  The transaction</div> <div> was dated January 5, 1852.</div> <div> <I>Abstracts of Original Land Entries, by Colleen Belk and Betty Bell.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0f7bca70.jpg" border=0 width="700" height="423" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> Not much is known about the Range Line School.  There are two possible locations for this school photo.</div> <div> The Oakland School, located at the southeast corner of Zora and Rangeline, was often referred to as the "Rangeline School."</div> <div> There was also a Range Line School located in the northeast part of Jasper County.</div> <bR> <div> In 1872 U. B. Webster, Jasper County Superintendent, submitted a report on the Range Line school where he stated:</div> <div> "This is the smallest school and the smallest house in the county I guess. There is strong talk of disorganizing the</div> <div> district as it appears impossible to sustain a school; but by disorganizing some must suffer, as they will then be too</div> <div> far from either Summit or Hackney. Miss Eva White is the teacher here at $25; fourteen pupils on register."</div> <bR> <div> The school building in the photo does not appear to be a small schoolhouse and there are over 65 children in student body.</div> <div> We believe this may be a photo of the Oakland/Range Line school south of Webb City.</div> <bR> <div> This photograph was taken circa 1895.  H. P. Davis is listed as the teacher.  In 1900,  P. Hardy Davis, age 44,</div> <div> was living in Webb City.  1852, Joseph Zorph transferred land located in Township 28, Range 32, Section 31 for the</div> <div> purpose of a school.  This location would have been in the section where the 1904 stone Oakland School building now stands.</div> <bR> <div> A new school building was constructed by architect August C. Michaelis in 1904.  The school was enlarged</div> <div> in the mid 1940's with a classroom added on the west end.  More remodeling was completed in 1959.  The</div> <div> Joplin school district sold the building about 1985.</div> <bR> <div> Oakland Now Has Church</div> <div> Where yesterday morning there had been a vacant lot, last night there stood a new church building, complete in every detail.  </div> <div> The church was built at Oakland, on a lot adjoining the Oakland school.  The structure is well built.  It is forty feet long and thirty</div> <div> feet wide and will seat 200 persons.</div> <bR> <div> Article from <I>The Carthage Press, </I>June 6, 1912.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>