Document - Historical information/data - History of Dakota County Schools up to 1881 - 1/1/1881
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,g ej,"'g SCHOOLS - HISTORY OF Dakota County pub. 1881
pgs. 350, 351
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The first school lb town was taught by Mi-
chael Downing during to winter of 1859-'60, in
a small log house 14x16 t, owned and built by
Thomas FarmlLn in th rth=west quarter of
section 14. For a new di ".t the attendance
was unusually large, being about forty. This
building was used about two years, when a new
one of logs was built, and located in the south-
east corner of the south-wc^t T'e'ter of section
23, on land now owned by Patrick Quigley. This
building was used until about six years ago,
when the present school-house was erected. It
is a frame structure 18x26 feet, and located on
the site of the old log building, containing patent
seats, with a seating capacity of about forty.
The district is designated as district number 14.
The next school was commenced soon after the
first in ahouse belonging to Bartholomew Dailey,
in the western part of section 29. It was a small
log house built as a claim shanty, and was used
by the distrigt for two years, then others until
1885, when a school-house was erected near the
center of section 29, on land owned by Daniel
Niemeyer. It is a frame structure about 16x22
feet, contains plain seats, and will hold from
thirty to thirty-five scholars. This district is
known as district number. 13.
In October, 1860, a school was taught in the
house of Robert O'Neill, by Mrs. O'Neill for one
month, and then the services of Miss Elizabeth
McDermott were secured, and she continued to
teach in the district a number of terms. The
next spring an old building was fitted up and
used for a school-house, until a log house was
built on land now belonging to P. Coghlin, in
the north-east quarter of section 11. This build-
ing was burned during the spring of 1865, and
was replaced by a frame erected soon after at the
same place. The locality was not convenient,
and the house was subsequently moved about a
mile further west, and during the month of
March, 1891, suffered the same fate as its prede-
cessor. A new building is already erected by
the district known as number 11, in the south-east
corner of section 8. It is 18x26 feet, was built
at a cost of $600, with patent seats, seating forty
scholars comfortably, and is the finest school
building in the town.
In 1869, district number 12 was organized, and
a school-house built... The building is about
18x24 feet. The district is the smallest in the
town In respect to the number of scholars. The
town has IQur entire districts and one joint dis-
trict, witlrlour school-houses.