Randolph County’s District 9 school was built in 18611. More than a hundred and sixty years later, it still stands on North Main Street in Winchester, just north of West 3rd Street.
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The White River Township District 8 school was located on David Heaston’s land in 18651. An 1882 map shows the schoolhouse at the same location2, but a new structure opened at the southeast corner of West County Road 200-North and North County Road 500-West a year before it was published3.
In 1847, officials in White River Township purchased land at the southwest corner of East County Road 300-North and North County Road 100-East to host a schoolhouse they planned for District 21. By 1865, the school had been relocated to the northeast corner of the intersection on land owned by the Holdeman family2.
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Randolph County’s District 16 school in White River Township was located at the northeast corner of South Indian Trail and West County Road 200-South as early as 18651. Nine years later, it stood at the same site on the land owned by the Maggard family. Its proximity to Philip Kabel’s property gave the school its common name2.
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White River Township’s District 10 school emerged from one of Randolph County’s earliest institutions: Friends operated it in the 1820s in conjunction with the White River Friends Meeting of Quakers1.
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It’s usually pretty easy to have your voice heard by local government. For starters, you could show up at a commissioners’ meeting, sign a petition, or hold a protest outside the county building. If all else fails, it might not hurt to gather up six of your elderly bridge club friends and pose naked for a calendar that draws attention to your plight! That’s what the self-styled “Courthouse Girls” from Farmland did while the historic Randolph County Courthouse awaited the wrecking ball. It worked!
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