It’s believed that Thomas Weir taught the first District 6 school. In 1855, a frame schoolhouse was built at the southwest corner of the present-day intersection of North Everett Road and West Moore Road¹. It burned in 1867. A new school was built to replace it the following year².

For many years, the congregation of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church utilized the schoolhouse for services³. In 1885, John Minton deeded the original schoolhouse’s land to the trustees of the church in order to build a permanent sanctuary⁴. The church, now a home, was erected later that year “on the ruins of” the schoolhouse⁵. The church, visible in the Google image below, looks like an old schoolhouse but it isn’t.

A newer Jake’s Creek school was located about 3/4 of a mile north of the previous school, on the land of William Ginn. He donated the plot to the Hamilton School Township on December 23, 1881 for a total of fifty dollars⁶.

The common name of the schoolhouse came from a creek near its original location that was named after Jacob Miller, a prominent citizen and early president of the Muncie & Bethel Turnpike Company. 

In 1902, the District 3 and District 6 schoolhouses were the only country schools remaining in Hamilton Township due to their remote locations far from Royerton and Shideler⁷. District 6 was closed the following year, and its students were driven to the school at Royerton⁸. In 2021, the building was home to American PineAcre Kennels.

Sources Cited
1 Helm, T. B. (1881). Mount Pleasant Township. In History of Delaware County, Indiana: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. book, Kingman Brothers.
2 School history (1881, March 7). The Muncie Daily Times. p. 2.
3 Grace Methodist Church (1912, September 20). The Muncie Star. p. 9.
4 Delaware County, Indiana. (1885, October 23). Deed Book 56. p. 66.
5 (See footnote 3).
6 Delaware County, Indiana. (1881 October 23). Deed Book 49. p. 254.
7 He Believes In Consolidation (1902, August 14). The Muncie Star. p. 10.
8 Delaware County Public Schools. (1904). School directory, Delaware County public schools, Delaware County, Indiana 1904-1905. Muncie, IN.