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CALEDONIA SCHOOL
Lott's Creek Township No. 2, circa 1892
Caledonia School, year unknown
Back, standing: Earl ANDERSON, Gladys REYNOLDS
Seated, left to right: Stella ANDERSON, teacher Carrie NORRIS,
Hattie JACOBS
Front: Gladys STUCK, Ora ANDERSON
Mount Ayr Record News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Snapshots of History
By Mike Avitt
Thanks to Mabel SHIELDS for allowing me to scan this photograph of the Caledonia schoolhouse. The last year the school
was operating was 1958 and Evelyn WARRICK was the teacher. Her students included Dean and Beverly DEEMER, Barton and Joe
SHIELDS, Gary SHIELDS, Dean SCOTT, Derald and Gerald NOBLE, Jim SHAHA, and Jerry SHIELDS. Mabel began teaching here in
1942. She was my eighth grade reading teacher in 1970-71 at Mount Ayr.
NOTE: Caledonia School was open for the 1959-60 school year. Upon closing, the building was acquired
by Mount Ayr School District.
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 15, 1960
Three rural schools in the Mount Ayr Community school district were sold Saturday at public auction for $697. Lotts
Creek No. 2 (Caledonia) was sold to Orville Van WINKLE for $147; Lotts Creek No. 5 (Watterson) was purchased by Ted
HIGHTSHOE for $200, and Poe No. 6 (Saltzman) went to Sam ADAMS for $350.00. Dennis OWENS was the auctioneer and
Kermit MILLER served as clerk.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012; updated February of 2015
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