June 1, 2011

Rural Schools historical gallery

Rural schools in the surrounding Cape Girardeau area. Most of the buildings no longer exist.

Southeast Missourian archive

School children play in this undated photograph taken at what is believed to be the Sawyer School, north of Fruitland. (Photo courtesy of Katherine Cochran; Missourian archives)

Indian Creek School in rural Cape Girardeau County, circa 1950s. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

This was Parochial School #1 at New Wells, in an undated photograph. (Missourian archives)

Published Saturday, Jan. 28, 1956 This picture, made more attractive by the coating of snow, shows the hill country in and about the area in east Central Cape County where it is proposed to establish a State Park. In the immediate foreground is the Iona School, which sits in the southwest corner of the 3,000-acre tract. The park area itself lies generally east, or to the right, of the school, but is surrounded by rolling hills, some of which may be noted in the photograph. A farm-to-market road provides access to the school from both Cape Girardeau and Jackson; the two towns being almost equidistanct from the park area. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Parochial school #2 at New Wells is shown in this undated photograph. (Missourian archives)

Campster School on Bloomfield Road was built in 1940 and replaced an 1858 brick structure. Classes continued in the stone school until the mid 1960s. In 1971 it became the Cerebral Palsy Center, and in 1994 it was sold by the Cape Girardeau School Board to a private individual, who converted it into an antique store. This photo was taken in 1945. (Missourian archive photograph by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Published Aug. 9, 1951 Fifty years of history of the Pecan Grove School will be recalled at a celebration Sunday. Located on Highway 74, east of Dutchtown, the building was erected in 1901. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Students and their teacher from the Delta School posed for a photograph in the 1920s. (Photo courtesy of Katherine Cochran; Missourian archives)

Published Saturday, Feb. 4, 1956 A day at Juden School. This is a scene in one of the two rooms of the Juden School, Cape Rock Drive, where fifth graders do their problems at the blackboard, a group of eighth graders (standing at the wall at the left) observe, and sixth graders study at their desks. At the blackboard and wall are Sharon Pender, Bill Palmer, Gary Sample, Gary McClard, Kenny Ervin, Wilma Jo Williams, Donald Griffaw, William Brockmire, Lester Sample, Ray Schweain and Donald Parks. Seated, back row: Francis Cannon, Edward Parks, Charles Cannon, Raymond Nichols and Janet Green; second row, Helen Parks, Ruth Koerber, Jane Riley, Mike Lowes and Robert Adams, and in foreground, Loretta Ford and Carolyn Wilkerson. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Published Friday, April 11, 1958 Kids were having a big time Thursday afternoon during playday ceremonies at Campster School, Bloomfield Road, for Campster, Abernathy, Marquette, Pecan Grove and Oak Grove rural schools. In this sack race, from the left, are Janet Morris, Zedath Proffer, Robert Ford and David Lytes of Marquette; Ronnie Propst, Darrell Hobbs, Brenda McElroy and Denice Keller of Campster; Janet French, Vernon and Linda Roth and Brenda Daume of Pecan Grove. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Juden School is pictured in this 1950s photograph. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

The school at Egypt Mills is shown in this 1950s photograph. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Published Wednesday, May 21, 1969 The last class on the last day of operation of the 100-year-old one-room Wittenberg School here, walking away forever. The eight students that would have attended the school next year will go instead to Altenburg, while seven graduating students will head for high school in Perryville. (Missourian archives)

Published Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1957 This one-room school (Iona School) is located in Cape County District R-4 in which voters will ballot Saturday on a $150,000 bond issue to erect a centrally-located school at Egypt Mills to serve the entire district. It is to have eight classrooms, a multi-purpose room which could be used as a community center, a cafeteria and other modern facilities. The new building would make use of six smaller schools unnecessary: Coker and Iona, the latter near the entrance to Trail of Tears State Park; the Brooks School on Bend Road; Egypt Mills; Indian Creek and Juden. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Published Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1957 This one-room school (Brooks School) is located in Cape County District R-4 in which voters will ballot Saturday on a $150,000 bond issue to erect a centrally-located school at Egypt Mills to serve the entire district. It is to have eight classrooms, a multi-purpose room which could be used as a community center, a cafeteria and other modern facilities. The new building would make use of six smaller schools unnecessary: Coker and Iona, the latter near the entrance to Trail of Tears State Park; the Brooks School on Bend Road; Egypt Mills; Indian Creek and Juden. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Published Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1957 This one-room school (Coker School) is located in Cape County District R-4 in which voters will ballot Saturday on a $150,000 bond issue to erect a centrally-located school at Egypt Mills to serve the entire district. It is to have eight classrooms, a multi-purpose room which could be used as a community center, a cafeteria and other modern facilities. The new building would make use of six smaller schools unnecessary: Coker and Iona, the latter near the entrance to Trail of Tears State Park; the Brooks School on Bend Road; Egypt Mills; Indian Creek and Juden. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

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Rural schools in the surrounding Cape Girardeau area. Most of the buildings no longer exist.

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