Pipe Creek Township’s District 1 school, known as Jobe, was built in 1895 to replace a frame structure. It, along with the Shiloh Friends Church immediately to the southeast, formed a small community along with several houses¹.

The frame schoolhouse was on the same site as early as 1880 and likely earlier². In 1924, the school suffered serious damage from a storm that broke its window panes and blew its cupola off³. The District 1 school closed prior to 1925, when a newspaper article referred to as the “old Jobe school house⁴.”           

It appears as though that after the building was closed as a school it was reused as a barn with several additions. Today, only a foundation remains on the site.

Sources Cited
1 And Now For The Day Of Little Red Schoolhouses (1969, May 23). The Anderson Daily Bulletin. p. 4.
2 Kingman Brothers. (1880). History of Madison County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. Chicago, IL.
3 Repair Storm Damage (1924, July 17). The Elwood Call-Leader. p. 1.
4 Friends for Forty Years (1925, May 28). The Elwood Call-Leader. p. 8.