13 Jun 1913
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Newspaper
Waynetown Despatch
Location
Waynetown, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
1
The first regular school likely in Vincennes in 1793 by Father Rivet marked the start of formal schooling after American control. Frontier children were taught at home by circulating teachers, then in log cabins with masters for three months a year, with schools built near springs and run on home discipline and scarce resources.
The Wayne Township High School seniors of 1913, ten members, reflect on the end of the old building era and the start of a new regime. The piece notes the 1909 cohort of thirty six, the gradual loss of students, and the enduring value of study despite hardship.
Montgomery county in the Wabash valley is bordered by Tippecanoe Clinton Boone Hendricks Putnam Parke and Fountain par. It covers 504 square miles with Sugar creek as the main waterway and hosts early mills and a famed woolen factory. First settlers include William Offield in 1821, the county court formed 1823, and a 1825 case of Jesse Keyton. A pioneer tornado and log homes mark frontier life before Crawfordsville grew.
Charles L. Zuck recounts Waynetown’s early layout from 1829, with the first church and school, Civil War mobilization led by Company D of the Sixty‑third Infantry, and postwar railroad boosts in 1869. Lodges such as Odd Fellows, Good Templars, Knights of Pythias, and Red Men followed, shaping a thriving inland town.
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