Blackberry 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="#663333" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="043c8c00dduano.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#663333" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Blackberry 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="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blackberry"><U><B>Blackberry School</B></U></A></div> <div> School house on Blackberry Creek, three miles west of Medoc, Miss Nora Grayson, teacher. Wages $30. </div> <div> Eighteen pupils on register, fourteen In attendance. Good little school house and everything in order. Good </div> <div> desks and teacher's desk, bell and black board. School doing well. Miss Grayson and Miss Pickering are both </div> <div> new teachers, and in their schools show good system.</div> <bR> <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 100, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> Blackberry school was located at the northeast corner of Redbud Road and County Road 290.</div> <div> Latitude 37.3203316, Longitude -94.5760656</div> <bR> <div> Blackberry school was annexed to Asbury R-3 on November 1, 1949.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>