 The Morgan Central School. District Number 1 in the town of Morgan, was originally located at Morgan. Now Morgan Emmanuel Evangelical United
Brethren Church in Morgan, this building replaced the original Morgan
Log School in 1885 that stood at the same spot. The log school was sold
and moved. This first wood frame school in Morgan was replaced in 1904
with three schools, Morgan North, Morgan Central #2 (at Highway "C" and
Wahl Lane) and Morgan South.
In 1904, when the law was passed establishing the two or three-room graded schools in all districts where the total enrollment averaged above 65, District No.1, Morgan, which had 90 on roll, came under the provisions of the law. The district was divided, abandoning the old white frame school, to build three new schools. "At the annual meeting held July 5th, 1904, a motion was made and seconded that the school house be moved to the center of the district. The board was instructed to buy one acre of land of the N. W. Corner of the E. side of Carl Schroeder's for $75.00. At a special meeting August 9, 1904. it was decided to build a new school." Oconto County Times Herald 1953 Two were north of the old school, the other to the south. The original old Morgan Central school was puchased by the Evangelical Church organization for $500. The building was rebuilt into a church, becoming "The Little White Church at the Cross Roads". |
 Morgan Log School This is an early 1970's photograph of the first school in Morgan. Built in 1878, it now stands at a different location on a private farm. The original site was at the northwest corner of where Highways "E" and "C" now cross. It was replaced by a white frame building in 1885, when it was sold and moved. It then became a blacksmith's shop and later was a farm outbuilding for pigs. Amy Harteau was the first school teacher. photograph
from the
Holl collection
 2010 Photo contributed by:Jill Gondek "The
first school
district, District -1, was organized in 1878, and
a small log school was built. The school had one window on each side.
The
equipment was meager. The desks were home-made, there were few books. A
large stove set in a box of sand occupied the center of the room.
Pupils
near the stove roasted on one side and froze on the other. At closing
time
ink wells were buried in the sand to keep the ink from
freezing.
Father (August Henry Birr)
was
the first school clerk and held the office for forty consecutive
years.
As the clerk, he bought the text books the children used and sold them
to the pupils. Good discipline was the chief characteristic he required
of a teacher. He asked each teacher to encourage the use of English on
the playground, because "English is the American language", he said.
Amy
Harteau was the first teacher in the new log school. Her salary was $25
a month. She walked bare foot the three miles from her home to the
school.
She carried her precious shoes and put them on after she arrived at the
school. The log school was sold to Mr. Tom Rymer, Sr., when the white
frame
school was built in 1885."
Written by Lucille Ruth Helen Birr Getke |