From 1869 through 1872, the first Elm Grove schoolhouse was home to the Elm Grove Christian Church until the congregation erected a purpose-built sanctuary just south 1. The present building was built about nine years after the church moved out2.
The Elm Grove school -along with Prairie, Keller, Closser, Beech Grove, Salem, and Florida- closed in 1932 after the six-room Leach consolidated school was erected about a mile north3.
The abandoned schoolhouse was eventually acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney E. Shelton, who remodeled the building into a home4. It remains a home today.
Sources Cited
1 Elm Grove homecoming is Sunday (1976, September 15). The Anderson Daily Bulletin. p. 12.
2 Jackson, S.T. (2009, November 14). In History: Township schools set by districts. The Anderson Herald Bulletin. Web. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
3 Leach School to be Dedicated Next Tuesday (1932, August 19). The Alexandria Times-Tribune. p. 1.
4 Man About Town (1959, March 27). The Anderson Daily Bulletin. p. 4.
