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Throughout its history, Grant County’s Green Township was home to as many as six one-room district schoolhouses¹. That changed in 1924, when the Green School Township issued $60,000 in bonds to build a consolidated structure just north of Point Isabel². All of the rural schools closed when the building was dedicated on August 3, 1925³. 

The Green Township School at Point Isabel featured a basement with a heating plant, tiny gym, domestic science room, and another room for manual training. The first floor was made up of four classrooms, a library, and the principal’s office; while the second floor was home to two more classrooms and an auditorium. Thomas McGaw of Kokomo designed the building⁴, which featured a pair of recessed doors within an arched entryway, a projecting central entrance bay, and a large central window of glass blocks⁵.

The school at Point Isabel served 180 students in fifth through eighth grades when it opened. Fifty-five high school students were transferred to seven different schools, in Union, Greentown, Windfall, Elwood, Fairmount, Swayzee, and Marion⁶! Unfortunately, consolidation eventually came for the consolidated school: in 1964, it was made part of the Madison-Grant United School Corporation, which encompassed Boone, Duck Creek, and Van Buren Townships in Madison County and Fairmount, Green, and Liberty Townships in Grant⁷. 

After the consolidation, the Green Township School remained in use hosting kids in grades 1-6⁸. By the early 1980s, however, enrollment had dwindled to about eighty⁹. The school board voted to close the fifty-eight-year-old building in after the 1983 term¹⁰, but its extra space proved useful: after a fire at the Duck Creek-Boone Elementary, displaced students were sent to be taught in Point Isabel’s auditorium, art room, music room, and gym¹¹. 

Today, the old Green Township School is privately owned and apparently used for storage. I’ve long wanted to write it, but traffic on State Road 13 always conspired against me. Not on March 23! I slowed my car to a stop, snapped my picture, then sped off in a hurry to make way for a semi barreling down the road. 

Sources Cited
1 Map of Grant County, Indiana (1903). W.B. Westlake [Madison]. Map. 
2 Notice of Sale of School Bonds (1924, March 8). The Marion Daily Chronicle. p. 6. 
3 New School Is Ready to Open, Old Houses Go (1925, August 3). The Marion Daily Chronicle. p. 9.
4 (See footnote 3). 
5 Survey Number 053-518-65008 (1992). IHSSI (County Survey). SHAARD. Indiana Department of Natural Resources [Indianapolis]. Web. Retrieved September 27, 2026.
6 (See footnote 3). 
7 State Acts To Shave New School District (1964, August 5). The Marion Leader-Tribune. p. 1. 
8 Smith, S. (2001, November 1). Max Leisure remembers days at Point Isabel School. The Marion Chronicle-Tribune. p. 4. 
9 Morris, F. (1982, March 8). Point Isabel school will remain open. The Marion Chronicle-Tribune. p. 11. 
10 Wofford, W. (1983, January 11). .M-G votes 5-2 to close Point Isabel school. The Marion Chronicle-Tribune. p. 1. 
11 Wofford, W. (1983, March 31). Burned-out students sent to Point Isabel. The Marion Chronicle-Tribune. p. 1.