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Longview School - District #7 - Sand Creek Township

This is a photo of Longview school as it stands today (2016) in Englewood where it was moved after the school closed. We have no old photos of the school.

Longview was in the extreme southeast corner of Meade County, just two miles west of the Clark County line and two miles north of the Oklahoma Border. Englewood was the address of the officers and many of the students. The school was formed May 31, 1885, on Section 3-T35-R36 on land owned by Wolford Wyatt, and held school there until 1939. It was disorganized January 5, 1946, and became District 79 and was disorganized in 1950, then attached to Joint Union (Meade & Clark Counties) then 220 (Clark County.)

The school is sometimes referred to as Longview, sometimes Seminery.

Clearlake was also in District #7, but was said to be a different school, but maps show it in the same location. Many things are a mystery about this school.

Surnames of the students of District #7 over the years were: Brown, Butler, Cheney, Clarke, Cothran, Craig, Drake, Eichler, Fisher, Fox, Frame, Fullerton, Goodnight, Gregory, Harris, Hart, Haver, Hines, Hink, Horford, Hyatt, Jackson, Jantz, Johnston, Krider, Lacer, Lemmons, Littig, Maffit, Morris, Nelson, Norton, Orem, Parks, Parsons, Plaster, Scarbrough, Shackelford, Smith, Sturdy, Taylor, Thompson, Unruh, Walker, Wardlow, Williams, and Wyatt.


This clip from the 1909 Meade County Platt Book shows the location of the school and the boundaries of District #7.	This is a modern-day map showing the location of the school.

Teachers:

Lane	Alice	1890-91	Haver*	Myrtle	1920-21
Smith	Lizzie	1890-91	Goodnight	Maude	1921-22
Graham	Alice	1891	Demmitt	Avis	1922-23
Smith	Florence	1892-93	Sickels*	Iva F	1923-25
Moffitt	Lizzie	1893-94	Demmitt	Avis	1925-26
Petefish	Mrs. M.P.	1893-94	Dingess	Mrs. Ruth	1926-27
Smith	Maggie	1902	Stamper	Jamie K	1926-27
Painter	Sue	1904-05	Heinz*	Rose	1927-28
Pinnick	Claude	1904-05	Mayberry*	Velma	1927-28
Kargh	Hilga	1905-06	Ratliff *	Bertha	1928-29
Gregory	Mrs LL	?	Connet*	Bennet	1929-31
Cowan	Margaret	1913-14	Vincent*	Fern	1931-32
Snyder	Gertrude	1914-15	Craig*	Mary	1932-33
Cole	John	1915-16	Haver*	Opal	1933-34
Bryan	Lillie	1917-18	Hinks	Viola	1934-35
Goodnight*	Maude	1918-19	Ricord*	Lillie	1934-37
King*	Iona M	1919-20	Craig*	Frances	1937-39

*indicates Seminary teachers

Longview School
4th & 5th Grade - 1932

1. Willa Mae Harris
2.Dean Orem
3.Junior Taylor
4.Quentin Frame
5.Lester Butler
6.Clyde Littig
7.Berman Butler

There was a Public Auction held on Monday, July 22, 1946, for the purpose of selling the Longview school and all it's fixtures.

The schoolhouse was listed as 28 x 38 ft., also sold was a barn and 2 outdoor toilets, a merry-go-round, piano, furnace stove, teacher's desk and chair, 20 desks, sand table, dictionary and stand, Coleman lantern, bookcase and books, pump, 80 ft. of pipe and cylinder and other miscellaneous items..