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Resisting a deep dive into Randolph County’s Maxville Swimming Pool

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Read time: 8 min.

Going swimming is fun! It’s a great way for kids to meet new friends, develop coordination, or just splash around for a while as I tended to do. For forty years starting in the 1930s, tons of kids went to the old Maxville Swimming Pool, which sits about seven miles east of Crystal Pool in Randolph County. I’ll try to resist taking a deep dive today, since spring-boarding into it in 2023 would be a tricky proposition. The place hasn’t operated in forty-five years.

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The ruins of America’s first consolidated schoolhouse, in Raleigh, Indiana

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Read time: 7 min.

What’s left of the Washington Township Public School sits just east of Raleigh, an unincorporated community in the northeastern corner of Rush County. Local legend -and even a boulder that sits out front- proclaims the building to have been the first consolidated school in the nation1. Fact or fiction, the building’s remains are among the most compelling schoolhouse ruins I’ve ever come across.

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Mt. Zion Church on Eaton-Wheeling Pike in Delaware County

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Read time: 5 min.

I started driving and exploring my surroundings during my senior year of high school. It’s been years, but I remember the impetus clearly: I asked my mom if I could take the girl I was dating to a soccer game at Delta High School, just northeast of town near where two highways intersected. Mom responded with a key question that got right to the point: “Do you even know the way to get there?”

Oof. I didn’t.

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Jay County’s White Oak schoolhouse from the air

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Read time: 8 min.

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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