It may not look like it, but the Madison County Historian told me that the house at County Roads 700-West and 1400-North was Duck Creek Township’s old District 1 schoolhouse. He’d consulted with the building’s owners, and that’s enough for me.
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A village called Monticello was laid out by James Hilldrup and a man simply known as Sanders in 1851 at the present-day corner of West County Road 900-North and North County Road 700-West near Frankton in Madison County1. A log schoolhouse was built on the south side of County Road 900-West at the crossroads the following year.
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Pipe Creek Township’s District 1 school, known as Jobe, was built in 1895 to replace a frame structure. It, along with the Shiloh Friends Church immediately to the southeast, formed a small community along with several houses1.
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An old schoolhouse just has to be prominent in order for the road it sits on to be named after it. After more than a century, Duck Creek Township’s old Reeder School still stands at the southeast corner of Indiana State Route 13 and the Reeder School Road, also known as West County Road 1400-North. Though it’s been covered in siding, its t-shaped layout is still identifiable as a schoolhouse: originally, it featured a central entry hallway flanked by two cloakrooms that led into the classroom.
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In 1880, Pipe Creek Township’s District 5 schoolhouse was located about an eighth of a mile east of the present-day intersection of North County Road 900-West and West County Road 900-North in Madison County, on the land of C. Quick and Company1. The school was not visible on a map produced twenty-one years later, although William R. Hawkins owned the 160 acres immediately north of its former location. Jasper Huffman owned the land that the schoolhouse was situated on2.
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