Knox Township’s Goodwill schoolhouse in Jay County

Read time: 2 min.

In 1881, a schoolhouse sat on land owned by the Sawyer family between Mud Creek and an angling pike that no longer exists in Knox Township1. By 1887, the building was designated as the township’s District 42. Eventually, it became colloquially known as the “Goodwill” schoolhouse3.

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Jay County’s White Oak schoolhouse from the air

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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