tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post2798986688710409757..comments2023-11-07T06:37:55.005-08:00Comments on New Vienna Ohio Memories: Early School History - Green Township, Clinton County OhioCatherine Uible Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-66319574297736877692013-09-04T04:21:00.814-07:002013-09-04T04:21:00.814-07:00This is a test comment to see if those subscribing...This is a test comment to see if those subscribing to the comments part of the blog are receiving the comments. I apologize for the need to moderate comments but the spam and self-promotional comments are not part of New Vienna history on this blog – Facebook has enough of that! Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-23994905301082996292013-04-13T08:53:01.499-07:002013-04-13T08:53:01.499-07:00John Levo reports the following info found while h...John Levo reports the following info found while he was researching his family's property:<br /><br />A township map from around 1900 which shows the locations of the following schools around NV.<br /> <br />Number 2 was on Bernard Road near where Tilton intersects. There is a residence in the building now.<br />Number 4 was on SR 729 beyond Drake Crossroads. I believe it is a residence now.<br />Number 6 was on SR 350 west of Snow Hill. The former Ada Purtee residence.<br />Number 7 was on the bends of Levo Road.<br />Number 8 was on SR 73 beyond Daily Road. There is a residence in the building now.<br />Number 9 was on Clark Road close to SR 28. I don't know the status.<br /> <br />I feel certain some of the missing numbers were those around New Antioch and over the tracks towards Mt. Olive. A school in NV proper is not indicated. There is no indication of a school on the Joe Eaton farm on Derivan Road.<br /> <br />I found it interesting the map showed a tile works on SR73 near number 8. It shows a church just beyond Snow Hill on what might be Johnson Road now.Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-73170121370870807882012-06-25T06:35:31.259-07:002012-06-25T06:35:31.259-07:00Yes, the standards and restrictions (no married wo...Yes, the standards and restrictions (no married women, for instance) for teachers were very strict back then. <br /><br />There are several small cemeteries in the vicinity of New Vienna. The one you are referring to is also called the Swingley Farm Cemetery as it was on the Swingley property at one time. Not sure about the ownership now. One source I read said that Morgantown was wiped out by cholera and then abandoned but it was a community prior to the 1850s.Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-70644359601238938322012-06-25T06:02:22.554-07:002012-06-25T06:02:22.554-07:00Fascinating stuff. Of course I have passed by the...Fascinating stuff. Of course I have passed by the one room schoolhouse on Bernard road a zillion times as I grew up close to there. Interesting to see monetary stuff from back then. This was funny: "Robert Peggin was first employed to keep this school, but he was a man of intemperance and lax morals and was soon released. James Savage was the next employee, but, morally, he was very little better, hence he was likewise released."<br /><br />Last time I was in the New Vienna area I did something I had been meaning to do for years. At the end of Leeka Road where it connects to SR 73, in a field nearby, there is an old cemetary (Morgantown??) that is pretty much cut off from modern civilization. A friend and I climbed a fence and went back there and looked around.Linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09079818651274074621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-1129681623711582152012-06-15T22:02:24.621-07:002012-06-15T22:02:24.621-07:00Ralph's great-uncle, Ulysses Chase James (1872...Ralph's great-uncle, Ulysses Chase James (1872-1905) was a teacher at a one room school on Wilson Road near New Antioch in the 1890s.Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-34854848991977825882012-06-15T07:21:07.629-07:002012-06-15T07:21:07.629-07:00John comments: The description of the location of ...John comments: The description of the location of the school on Levo Road given by the Williams does not correspond with the location of a school lot shown on the abstract of title that Kathy and I have for the farm. The school lot shown on the abstract is over a mile to the east northeast of Snow Hill although it was on land originally owned by the Swingley family. The location given by the Williams would indicate the school being about where SR 73, Leeka Road and Levo Road merge. Although that may have been a good location, I have never heard of or seen evidence of a school building in that vicinity. I also asked Christine Berwanger if she had ever come across any information about a school during her research on the history of their farm and the Snow Hill Tavern and she hadn't.<br /> <br />The first mention of the school lot I find is the sale of land to Thomas Elliot by John and Rebecca Matthews on December 16, 1869. The transfer states ".....excepting and resering a lot sold and conveyed by said John Matthews and wife to the Directors of School District No. 7, in Green Tp., Clinton Co., Ohio contain one half acre of land".<br /> <br />However the next mention of the school lot is August 25, 1874 in a Probate Court hearing. It states "....excepting and reserving a lot sold and conveyed by said Thomas G, Elliot and wife to the Directors of School District No. 7, in Green Tp., Clinton Co., Ohio, containing three-fourths (3-4) of an acre of land".<br /> <br />I find it interesting that sometime between 1869 and 1874 the school lot grew in size by a quarter acre. I also wonder when the school was dissolved and the lot sold or transferred back to our farm.<br /> <br />The abstract was done for Mary Ingold and appears to go through 1896 or 1897.Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956822733456620707.post-34959396844729312642012-06-15T07:12:19.767-07:002012-06-15T07:12:19.767-07:00Cheryl reports her grandmother, Abigail Curtis Rul...Cheryl reports her grandmother, Abigail Curtis Rulon attended Hazel College (the Clinton-Highland Normal School?) and her daughter-in-law grew up in the renovated school house on Bernard Road.<br /><br />Nancy comments: The East Fork Meeting House built in 1809 on the Henry Nordyke farm was in the little cemetary above where I grew up. Mother said there was a Quaker Church there and it burned down but I don't know when. I don't know of any other Nordyke's farms around NV except our house, Hoyt Penn's home and Walter Drake's house. Hoyt's was the oldest, then ours and Drakes was built last.Catherine Uible Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02229128004745240802noreply@blogger.com