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White River Township’s District 10 school emerged from one of Randolph County’s earliest institutions: Friends operated it in the 1820s in conjunction with the White River Friends Meeting of Quakers¹. 

The church was originally located at the southeast corner of East County Road 100-North and North County Road 100-East², but a wood-frame public school known as White River, or Hiatt after its landowner³, was later erected on the northeast corner of the intersection⁴.

A Friends school operated concurrently in fits and starts, but the District 10 school was used for nearly fifty years before it closed in 1911⁵. That year, the students of District 10 left to attend classes at the consolidated McKinley school east of Winchester⁶.

The old District 10 school has been remodeled and added to several times over the years. Today, it’s used as a home.

Sources Cited
1 Hinshaw, G. (2008). A History of Education in Randolph County, Indiana. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
2 Warner, C.S (1865). 1865 Wall-Map of Randolph County. C.A.O. McClellan & C.S. Warner. Waterloo, Indiana. map.
3 Randolph County Office of Information & GIS Services. (2022). Parcel ID: 68-09-15-300-035.000-020 
4 Tucker, E. (1882). History of Randolph County, Indiana. book. Chicago, IL; A.L. Kingman.
5 (See footnote 1).
6 (See footnote 1).