This week's theme for Sepia Saturday happens to be schools. Old schools happen to be one of my many interests, especially the old schools throughout Oregon.
On February 12 of this year, I did a post about McNeil/Panther Creek School, where my great-grandfather Albert Traylor and his cousins attended.
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
To learn who is in this photo and to read the rest of that blog post, please "CLICK HERE."
My grandmother, Florence Hedrick Traylor and her brothers, John and Homer Hedrick attended both Sunnyvale School and the Drain Normal School; going on to graduate from Drain High School. My great-great aunt, Aurilla Hedrick Putnam, was one of the first teachers at the Drain Normal school.
The Drain Normal School:
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| Drain Normal School ~ Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
Sunnyvale School:
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
I'm guessing that if Grandma was around 10 or 11, this one was taken in 1922 or 1923. I sat with her before she died in 2000 and we wrote down everybody in this photo that she could remember. I tried to get the spellings as close and I could. Amazing that at almost 88, she still remembered everybody!
Back Row: Teacher, Mildred Church, Ruel Elliott, Jess Woody, George Cary, John Hedrick, Dwight Rossiter, Harley Swearingen, Homer Hedrick Lois Rossiter, and Teacher, Helen Smell.
Row Three: Gertrude Hubbard, ______, Luce Snell, Florence Hedrick, Winifred Morningstar, Anna Baker, Amy Cary, Edna Baker, ____ Elliot (?), Venus Lakey, Mary Cunningham.
Row Two: Mildred Snell, Lucille Swearingen, Esther Snell, Irene Snell, _________, Vera Kersterson, Letha Hubbard, Alda Swearingen, ________, Katherine Cunningham, Bruce Cunningham.
Row One: Louis Lakey, Charles Ross, Floyd Ross, Otis Swearingen, Claude Snell, Buck Hubbard, Paul Lakey, Horence Cunningham, Richard Snell, Austin Rossidger
Drain High School:
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
I need to ask Mom to make sure, but I'm pretty sure that in the picture above, Grandma is in the third row up, at the end, and Uncle John is the row above her close-by and wearing the cardigan. He must have liked those, because he is wearing one below too.
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
Okay, now we will switch gears. Another one of my projects includes researching the Mohawk Valley of Oregon, with hopes of someday writing a book or two about it and other early Oregon towns and cities. I just found a great link that will help me with this, and am going to put it on here so that I can find it later. If you want to check it out, please CLICK HERE (Louis Polley).
Here are a few photos of some of those early Oregon schools.
The three pictures below were taken in communities in the Mohawk Valley of Oregon. All three come from The Curtis Irish Collection, a Mohawk Valley historian. To read about the info that Curtis has gathered over the years, please CLICK HERE.
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
This is of the Stafford School in the Mohawk Valley, and was taken in the 1870's.
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
The Upper Mabel School was built in 1878.
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| Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews |
This one was taken at the Wendling Booth Kelly Camp 35 School. By 1945 the logging camp schools were all closed.
To learn more of schools in the Mohawk Valley, check out this link by CLICKING HERE. Also, to learn more about The Mohawk Valley and other cool info about early Oregon, please check out Steve Williamson's website by CLICKING HERE.
I hope that you enjoyed your visit! I didn't go too much in depth, but this gives me something else to work on as time permits. Happy Sepia Saturday, my friends.
~ Kathy M.
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