Sources used for the locations: 1886 Warner & Foote plat, 1903 Waukon
Standard plat, 1917 Waukon Standard plat & the 1917
Anderson Publishing Co. plat; and various other sources
as credited on the individual pages. Miscellaneous country school records
& photos - Be sure to check these files as
they usually have info. from more than one school!
- Spelling
Bee Contests Was
your ancestor a champion speller? A
contestant in a Spelling Bee?
- School
news, odds & ends from various county
schools & years
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
(Franklin & Linton twp.,
Rossville)
- Rural
school notes, graduates & misc. other,
1923
- Rural
school notes, teachers & other misc.
info., 1932
- Rural
school notes, graduates & misc. other,
1933
- Rural school notes,
graduates & misc. other, 1934
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1935
- Rural school graduates, 1936 (partial list)
- Rural school graduates, 1937
- Rural school graduates, 1938 (south-west twp.
schools)
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1939
- Rural schools 8th Grade
Graduates, 1940's
- Franklin, Ludlow & Post
twp teachers - misc years
- Rural school graduates &
essay winners, 1950
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1951 (misc. schools)
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1952
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1963
- One-Room
Country School -Trying to keep the past from
fading from memory - 2008 news
article
- Misc.
county school photos & school children
- These photos are known to be of Allamakee
co. schools and/or schoolchildren - can you
help to ID them?
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Center township
- Center No. 1, Ferring
school,
Section 1 northern boundry just south of
Lansing twp., there is another school labeled
No. 1 in Section 3 (1886 & 1917 Anderson
plat) that school isn't shown on the 1917
Waukon Standard plat
- Center No. 2, possibly called Three
Corners school (needs verification), on
boundry of Sections 7 & 8 (1886 &
subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 3, Shogren school, NW portion of Section 20 (1886
& subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 4, Bakkum school, east of Elon, approx. 1¼ mi.,
over the section line of Section 31, in
Section 32 (1886 & subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 5, Drake school, Section 15, SE corner (1886 plat),
Section 23 NW corner (1917 plats)
- Center No. 6, Elon school, Section 33, slightly SW of Elon on
the Waukon-Elon Rd. (1886 & subsequent
plat maps)
- Center No. 7, Dalby school, Section 36, NW corner (1886 plat)
and Section 25 a bit north of where it was
shown in 1886
- Center No. 8, Faegre school, SE part of Section 9 (1886 &
subsequent plats)
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Fairview township
- Ion
school - Section 24, village of
Ion, across from the public square (1886
Warner-Foote Plat) - misc. school notes
- Fairview No. 1 - location needed
- Fairview No. 2 - Section 15, SW corner (1886
Warner-Foote Plat)
- Fairview No. 3 - Section 33, along Yellow
River, abt 1 mi. S of school in Section 18
(1903 Waukon Standard Plat, 1917 Anderson
Plat)
- Fairview No. 4 - Section 15, SW of village of
Johnsons Port (1903 Waukon Standard Plat)
- Fairview No. 5, Section 18, east side on
bountry with Section 17 (1886 Warner-Foote
Plat & 1917 Anderson Plat)
- Fairview No. ?, Section 28, along Yellow
River, abt 1 mi. N of school #3 (1903 Waukon
Standard Plat)
- Fairview No. 7 - location needed
- Fairview
No. 8 Irish Ridge school,
Section 25 not far south of Ion and just
north of boundry with Sect. 36 (1886
Warner-Foote Plat, 1903 Waukon Standard Plat
& 1917 Anderson Plat). The school was 9
mi. east of Monona, Clayton co. - misc.
school notes
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Franklin township
Important note! The
locations & school number of Franklin twp.
country schools should be independently verified as
not all of the plat maps ID the school by number.
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes several Franklin twp. schools
- Franklin No. 1, just south of the section
line of Section 36 (1886 plat map) this school does not appear on
subsequent plat maps
- Franklin
No. 2, Section
8, aka Forest Mills school, does not appear on the 1886 plat
map, is shown on the 1917 Anderson
Plat) - photo
- Franklin No. 3, Section 15,
aka Red School - photos & some history
- Franklin
No. 4, SW part of Section 21 - misc. school notes
- Franklin No. 5, Volney
school, Section 13, village of Volney
- Franklin
No. 6, Section 24, a short
distance south of Smithfield (1886 plat map) - misc. info.
- Franklin No. 7, Cherry
Valley, Section 19 - photos of school
& schoolchildren and other info.
- Franklin No. 8, Section 5, NW corner (1886
plat map & 1917 Anderson Plat) - photo/info. needed
- Franklin No. 9, Bear Hollow school, Section
12, near the center of the section (1886 plat
map & 1917 Waukon Standard plat map) - photo/info. needed
- Franklin
No. 10, Section 33 - misc school notes
- Franklin No. 11, Section 2 (1917 plat map: may
be the same school as shown as No. 9 on
the 1886 plat map) - misc.
info.
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French Creek
township
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Hanover township
- Hanover No. 1, Section 9 (1886 plat map) and Section 10
(1903 plat map) - misc. info.
- Hanover No. 2, Section 29 - Photos &
misc. data
- Hanover No. 3, Section 23
(1886 & 1903 plat maps) and Section 14
(1917 plat map) - photo/info. needed
- Hanover No. 4, Section 26 - Photo of school children
ca1930/1931
- Iowa River School, Section 5
(not on 1886 plat map, appears on 1903 &
1917 plat maps) - photo/info. needed
- Vosse Vagen School - Section 6
(1886 plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Iowa township
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Jefferson township
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes Rossville school notes
- Jefferson twp. No. 1, Section
12 (1886 Warner & Foote plat)
- Jefferson twp. No. 2, east
side of Section 8 (1886 Warner & Foote
plat, 1917 Anderson plat)
- Jefferson twp. No. 3, Section 18 (1886 Warner &
Foote plat, 1917 Anderson plat) - Constructed
c1880's, undated photo
- Jefferson twp. No. 4, at the
4-corner intersection of Sections 15, 16, 21
& 22 (1886 Warner & Foote plat, no
number assigned to this school on the 1917
Anderson plat)
Jefferson twp. No. 4, Section 23 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat - 2 schools noted to be No.
4 on the 1886 plat; noted to be #4 on the
1917 Anderson plat)
- Rossville
school, Jefferson twp. No. 7, west side Section 26 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat; 1917 Anderson plat) - 1935
schoolchildren photo & school house
photos
- Jefferson twp. No. 8, east
side Section 29 (1886 Warner & Foote
plat, 1917 Anderson plat)
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LaFayette township
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Lansing township
- Lansing twp. No. 2 - Shown on
the 1875 Andreas Atlas and 1886 Warner-Foote
plat in Section 20
- Calhoun school, Lansing twp.
No. 3 / Church (Churchtown) school - 1875 Andreas Atlas in Section 30
& 1886 Warner-Foote plat in Section 32 -
1905 report card * Photo of schoolmates, ca
1915
- Lansing twp. No. 4 - Shown on
the 1875 Andreas Atlas and 1886 Warner-Foote
plat in Section 26
- Lansing twp. No. 5 - Shown on
the 1886 Warner-Foote plat & 1903 Waukon
Standard map in Section 15
- Van
Coulee / Van Cooley school Lansing twp. Section 12 - Photo
& Carrie Reed 1891 report card
- Lansing twp. No. 7 - Section
28 on the 1903 Waukon Standard map
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Linton township
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes several Linton twp. schools
- Egan school, Linton twp. No. 1
- in the south of Section 2 (1886 plat map) -
photo/info. needed
- Big Foot school, Linton twp.
No. 2 - NE
corner Section 7 (1886 plat & 1917
Anderson Publishing Plat)
- Figgie school, Linton twp.
No. 3 - SE
corner Section 29 -1886 plat & 1917
Anderson Publishing Plat - pupil photo (ca
1932-1935)
- Sixteen school, Linton twp.
No. 4 - Section
16; Photos * Teachers 1906-1958 * Students
1930-1958 * misc. items
- Suttle Creek school, Linton twp. No 5 -
Section 19 along Suttle Creek (1886
plat & 1917 Anderson Publishing Plat) -
photo/info. needed
- Linton
twp. No. 6 - Section 26 (1886 plat map), Section 27 (1917
Anderson Publishing Plat) - misc. info.
- Linton twp. No. 7 - Section 13 (1917 Anderson
Publishing Plat)
- Linton twp. No. 8 - Section 25, on the
southern border with Section 26 (1886 plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Ludlow township
- Ludlow
No. 1, SW corner of Section 1
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 2, SE corner of Section 4
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 3, Krumme school, Section 6 - photo & misc.
info.
- Ludlow
No. 4, SE corner of Section 18
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc info.
- Ludlow
No. 5, NE corner of Section 21
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 6, NE
corner of Section 23 (1886 & 1917
plat maps) - misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 7, SE corner of Section 26
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 8, SW corner of Section 27
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 9, NE part of Section 31
(1886 & 1917 plat maps)
- German Presbyterian Parochial
School, north central Section 9 (1886
plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Makee township
- Elk school, SW corner of
Section 27, at the intersection of Sections
27, 28, 33 & 34
- Fan
school, SE
corner of Section 26, at the intersection of
Sections 25, 26, 35 & 36 - photos &
history
- Hanson school #4, Section 22, north central area
- photos & misc. data
- Howard school, Section 8, center of the section
- Lycurgus
school,
Section 2, northwestern part, on the Church
road - history & photos of school /
school children
- Makee school, Section 18, not far north of
the section 19 boundry
- Paulk school, intersection of Sections 20,
21, 28 & 29 on Village Creek
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Paint Creek
township
- Cherry Mound school, Section
33 (1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat)
- Cross Roads school, Section 29
(1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat) - may be aka Big Foot
school
- Dahl school, Section 13 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Grimsgaard school, Section 15 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat map, not on 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Ness school, Section 9 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Northwest school, Section 6 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Paint Creek school, Section 25 boundry with
Section 36 (1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat)
- School, Section 18 (1917 Anderson plat), no
other identification given for this school
- Storla school, Section 11 (1886 Warner &
Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson plat)
- Waterville school:
Waterville High School
1923-1960
- history, graduates, teachers,
superintendents, principals, board, janitors,
cooks
Waterville HS Class of 1956 - roster & photos of the class
Waterville undergraduates:
kindergarten - junior class, 1960
Waterville
school records & photos - misc. years
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Post township
- Unknown country school -
Postville area - 1906 photo, might be the Minert
school
- Empire school, in SE corner of
the NE corner of Section 31, 1 mi. NW of
Postville (1886 plat map)
- Evergreen
school,
Section 2 - photo & misc. items
- Hardin school, village of
Hardin, Section 36 (1886 plat map)
- Highland
school,
Section 8 - misc. data
- Minert
school,
Section 21 - Photos, school, school children
and more
- Myron
school, Section 3 - misc. info.
- South Grove school, Section 35 (1886 plat map) - misc.
info.
- West
Grove school, Section 23 - history & misc.
other records
- Woodland school, Section 20
(1886 plat map)
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Taylor township
- Climax school, center of
Section 17 (1886 & 1917 plat maps) * Picnic at Climax school, 1910 * Records, misc. yrs.
- Excelsior school, SW corner,
Section 5 (1882 & 1917 plat maps)
- Mound school, SE corner,
Section 3 (1886 & 1917 plat maps)
- Paint Rock / Paint Creek
school, NW
corner Section 32 (1886 & 1917 plat
maps); two miles west of Harpers Ferry
- Spring Brook school, aka Oil Spring school,
Section 7 (1917 plat map) - photos, students
& misc. other data
- St. Joseph school, SE corner
Section 21 (1886 & 1917 plat maps)
- Waukon Junction school, southern tier Section 3 in the
village of Waukon Junction (1886 plat map,
shown on the inset of Waukon Junction); about
4 miles south of Harpers Ferry
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Union City
township
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Union Prairie
township
- Stone School, Union Prairie
No. 2, aka
Rock School - SW corner Section 10, where
Sections 9, 10, 15 & 16 intersect (1886
Plat & 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat where it
is called the Rock School) - Photos &
brief history
- Eells School - NE section 27, approx. ¼ mile
west of Mt. Olivet cemetery (1886 Plat map) -
Photos & brief history
- Emmett School - SW section 21, where Sections 20,
21, 28 & 29 intersect (1886 Plat map
& 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) - photo of
the school
- Helming School - Section 34, north-central just
south of the border with section 27 (1886
Plat map & 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) -
photo & misc. items
- Pleasant
Ridge School, aka P-ridge/Pea Ridge/Patterson
Creek school or Jones schoolhouse - Located
west bountry of Section 12 - Daily Registers
1901-1905, photo of the school & photos
of school children; and misc. other from
various years
Updated!
Feb 8, 2024 - 1930 news article
- Southwest School, aka Southwestern Bell school - SW
corner of Section 29 at intersection of
sections 29, 30, 31 & 32 (1886 Plat map
& 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) - photo
& misc. items
- Union Prairie No. 5 - NW corner Section 17, where
Sections 7, 8, 17 & 18 intersect (1886
Plat map)
Union Prairie No. 6 - Section 8 (1917 Plat map)
No. 5 & No. 6 are the same school. Photos
& misc. history
- Union Prairie No. 8 - NW
corner of Section 5, on the border of Section
6 (1886 Plat map)
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Waterloo township
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