In 1855, the Monroe Township Trustee in Delaware County gave David Courtney $725 to build some schoolhouses1. Although the record doesn’t specify which schools he erected, he received roughly three times what other contractors were paid for constructing a single structure.
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In 1874, Monroe Township’s District 1 school was located on Isaac Lenox’s land just southwest of where it stands today1. The schoolhouse -probably a frame building- was built in 1854 by Lewis Rees, who was paid $2242. No trace of the structure remains today.
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A predecessor to Monroe Township’s District 3 schoolhouse was the McKinney schoolhouse, which stood at the site of the original Corinth church about a mile south of the current structure1. By 1874, though, the District 3 schoolhouse was located as its present spot2. That District 3 schoolhouse was probably of wood-frame construction, since the brick one that sits there today was built a year later3.
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Though it was never platted, a small community sprung up around the Macedonia post office at what’s now the intersection of East County Road 700-S and South County Road 200-E. A cemetery has existed in the area since 1840, but by 1881, William Suit operated a store there and a Mr. Gross acted as the village’s blacksmith1. A post office inside the store was discontinued in 1890 and the community subsequently shriveled up2. At some point later, the United Brethren Church immediately east of the cemetery was torn down to supply lumber for a grocery store on US-353.
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