Mount Pleasant Township’s first schoolhouse, known as Antioch, was built in 1842 as one of the area’s earliest⁴¹ after Belleshazer Dragoo deeded a portion of his property for the purpose of erecting a school⁴². Andrew Danner was the first teacher there⁴³. Ambiguous early plat maps seem to indicate that, at least as of the 1870s, some structure sat at the west end of Jackson Street at Yorktown-Gaston Pike⁴⁴, but it doesn’t appear to have been the location of the Antioch school. In 1879, lumber dealer David Cammack came to the area, establishing a rail station, saw mill, and post office half a mile east of the school⁴⁵. Over time, residents began referring to the school as Cammack to match the name of the village. 

High winds leveled the brick schoolhouse on July 4, 1911⁴⁶ and classes were held in Cammack’s Red Man’s Lodge until a larger, two-room structure was erected on its site in 1912⁴⁷.

Grades 1 through 8 were taught at the new, two-room schoolhouse, which featured a removable partition that allowed the creation of a single, large, room. A portion of the school’s belfry was destroyed during the winter of 1935 when sparks from a nearby chimney ignited the wooden cupola⁴⁸. 

Though it was Mt. Pleasant Township’s newest school building, the Cammack School closed in 1936. There were brief discussions towards reopening the schoolhouse in 1938 after township officials refused to take on the debt to build a new facility necessitated by a proposed 125-unit Federal Housing Authority project⁴⁹, but it did not.

In 1941, the township sold the old schoolhouse to George and Edward Aul for $1,160, high above its appraised value of $400⁵⁰. In 1967, an 8,000-square foot addition to the south nearly tripled the building’s total area. In 2021, the old school remained in use by Aul Bros. Tool and Die, Incorporated.

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2 Delaware County, Indiana. (1841, June 15). Deed Book 4. p. 311.
3 Bottom Lands An Attraction. (1938, September 16). The Muncie Morning Star, pp. 25.
4 Kingman, A.L. (1874). Map of Delaware County, Indiana : from recent & original surveys, made expressly for this map, drawn, compiled and published by A.L. Kingman and assistants. map, Chicago, IL; A.L. Kingman.
5 Thanks to David Cammack, this little town got its name. (1993, August 6). The Muncie Star, pp. 5B
6 Celebrate Completion of School Structure. (1912, April 13). The Muncie Morning Star, pp. 2.
7 Cammack Crossroads. (1977, July 3). The Muncie Star, pp. D1.
8 Cammack School is Damaged by Fire. (1935, December 6). The Muncie Evening Press, pp. 9.
9F.H.A. Project is Blocked. (1938, June 25). The Muncie Evening Press, pp. 1.
10 Old Cammack School is Sold at Auction. (1941, July 24). The Muncie Evening Press, pp. 10.