Dist. #38 - Meade Center,
Crooked Creek, Mertilla Townships
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District #38 is
another one of those school districts that did not last very
long and served very few students.
We have no record of when it was formed,
but the early officers were all from the Allen and Gray
families, with Cyrus G. Allen as Director. We don't know
where the schoolhouse was located but are surmising that it
was near Rev. Cyrus Allen's home.
As you can see from the maps this district
was very close to Meade... the light yellow area shows the
odd shaped district on both maps. The pink area on the old
map shows where the Allen family homesteads were located. |
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1909, the date of the old map at top, District #38 had been
divided up between Districts 44 and 60. We only have records
from 1888 to 1903. We have a clipping from the "Meade County
News" on April 21, 1904, that states "John Stalder moved the
school house in District 38 to George Allen's place, where
the same will be converted into a barn, instead of the one
Mr. Allen recently lost in the fire." |
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TEACHERS |
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LAST |
FIRST |
YEARS |
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Jenkinson |
Sadie |
1891 |
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Norman |
Dollie |
1892 |
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Snyder |
Lotta W. |
1892 |
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Eliason |
Julia |
1893-94 |
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We have the limited list of
teachers at left, but no record of students.
In the Pioneer story of Edward H. Boyer in
the "Meade County History" book:
....Schools for the children were a
problem. One winter, sister Meda stayed at the home of
Rev. C.G. Allen in Artesian and attended school. Rev.
Allen's home was where the Hubert Gulick home is now....
Artesian was a Ghost Town located about
two miles north east of the C.G. Allen Homestead. |
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