Oakland School History home Oakland School
Joseph Zorph transferred land located in Township 28, Range 32, Section 31 for a school. The transaction
was dated January 5, 1852.
Abstracts of Original Land Entries, by Colleen Belk and Betty Bell.
A new school building was constructed by architect August C. Michaelis in 1904. The school was enlarged
in the mid 1940's with a classroom added on the west end. More remodeling was completed in 1959. The
Joplin school district sold the building about 1985.
Oakland Now Has Church
Where yesterday morning there had been a vacant lot, last night there stood a new church building, complete in every detail.
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
feet wide and will seat 200 persons.
Article from The Carthage Press, June 6, 1912.