Locust Grove School Falls Township, Muskingum County - 16 DEC 1949
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Locust Grove School Falls Township, Muskingum County - 16 DEC 1949
| Dug_K (View posts) | Posted: 24 Jul 2006 4:26PM GMT |
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This item appeared in The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio 16 December 1949
Rebuild School
Into Dwelling
Another Muskingum County "little red schoolhouse" formerly the Locust Grove School on Newark Road abandoned a year ago is not being torn down but is being converted into a seven room ranch type home by Charles W Speed it was learned Thursday. The school was built before the Civil War and Speed since acquiring the building has learned his father George Speed attended classes there in 1851. He also learned that Carrington T. Marshall, former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court once taught in the school. The first room of the brick school was erected in 1850 and another room was added in 1898. It had been in use constantly until abandoned last year when the new Licking View and Dillon Falls Schools were opened for classes. Speed in rebuilding the school is adding extra rooms and the outside walls will be refinished with stucco.
*submitter's note: I think the building yet stands?
Rebuild School
Into Dwelling
Another Muskingum County "little red schoolhouse" formerly the Locust Grove School on Newark Road abandoned a year ago is not being torn down but is being converted into a seven room ranch type home by Charles W Speed it was learned Thursday. The school was built before the Civil War and Speed since acquiring the building has learned his father George Speed attended classes there in 1851. He also learned that Carrington T. Marshall, former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court once taught in the school. The first room of the brick school was erected in 1850 and another room was added in 1898. It had been in use constantly until abandoned last year when the new Licking View and Dillon Falls Schools were opened for classes. Speed in rebuilding the school is adding extra rooms and the outside walls will be refinished with stucco.
*submitter's note: I think the building yet stands?