Five Mile School (Butler School) - District #5

Records indicate that Five Mile School was organized in late 1885. This school was in the southeast corner of Meade County barely a mile and a half from the Clark County line. The school itself was located in the NW/4 of Section 14-T34-R26 in Sand Creek Township.

We don't have much on this school. It ran from the 1880's until the end of the term in 1938. If we have a photo of the school building, we haven't been able identify it.

Surnames of the pupils attending Five Mile over the years were: Butler, Collins, Easterday, Eichler, Herman, Johnston, Landrum, Maxes, Murphy, Norton, Painter, Plaster, Poffinberger, Shepherd, Stacy, Stout, Tucker and Winn.

This page from the old 1909 Meade County Plat Book shows the location of the Five Mile School. The District boundaries changed over the years to accommodate the families who lived in the region, but the building remained in the same place.

The school apparently got it's name from the creek that ran through that section. To this day there is a Butler (or Five Mile) Cemetery in section 15 just west of the school location.

This modern day map shows the location of the school with familiar roads and section markings.

Teachers of Five Mile School

Ruth E. Hill	1886-87
Sadie Jenkins	1890-91
Mrs. Petefish	1891-92
Agnes Barber	1892-93
Florence Smith	1893-94
Maggie Smith	1900-01
George Cole	1904-05
Olive O'Brien	1913-14
Howard Suler	1914-15
Mary L. Mahoney	1915-16
Mary L. Gearhart	1916-18
Lillie Bryan	1918-19

Anna Wenta	1919-20
Joe Hickey	1920-21
Ruth B. Small	1921-23
Lillie Powell	1923-24
Ida L. Holdeman	1924-26
Hazel Butler	1926-27
Ivy Hickey	1927-28
Eva Landrum	1928-31
Letha Clawson	1931-32
Fern Wolfe	1932-33
Mary Jane Ashcraft	1933-35
Mary Jane Easterday	1935-36