In 1870, Francis Sipe deeded the Delaware Township Trustee a portion of his land for the construction of a District 9 schoolhouse59 on what’s now North County Road 400-East about a quarter of a mile north of East County Road 350-North60.
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Everyone who knows me is familiar with my fascination with old one-room schoolhouses. As such, they know about my compulsion to find all of them in East Central Indiana! As it stands, I’m pretty sure that I’ve been to all of the old schoolhouses in Delaware, Madison, Blackford, and Randolph counties. I thought I’d wrapped Jay County up, too, until I learned about Jackson Township’s White Oak school.
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This is what remains of Madison County’s Pipe Creek Township: District 8 schoolhouse, colloquially known as King’s. There’s not much to be seen of it today, but it’s there under the all the brush and bramble. I’ve found and taken photos of nearly two hundred one-room schoolhouses over the past couple of years, and my process for finding them starts rather simply: I locate a plat map from the late 1800s and compare it to recent satellite images from Google Maps. I get some coordinates and go take a picture. Sometimes it’s not that simple, but in this case, pictures be damned, it pretty much was.
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