The school house was a two story frame building that sat where now a propane gas station is. The bottom floor was used for the elementary and the second floor for the high school. The school did not stand alone - around it were a blacksmith shop, a grocery, a saloon, and other shops and houses. This school was in use until 1922, when it was replaced by the brick building which was once known as the Mark Center School until it was sold. The old school building then became a home/grocery store/ gas station until it burned around 1970. It was the last building standing in OLD Mark Center.
Harold Walker, Teacher, 1910
1. Pauline Routsong
2. Marguerite Wagner
3. Lois Perry
4. Cleo Gessinger
5. Doris Courtnay
6. Maxine Routsong
7. Mildred Swaysgood
8. Opal Rohn
9. Blanche Slough
10. Carmine (?) Wheeler
11. Emma Perry
12. Asa Ensign
13. Laota Haver
14. Wanda Ensign
15. Anna Margaret Hertie
16. Audra Gilliam
17. Naoma Lovejoy
18. Gladys Perry
19. Jennie Geissinger
20. Gladys Cumming (?)
21. Blanchie Smith
22. John Arend
23. Norla (?) Arend
Numbers 23 - 28 Names on the corner were torn off/ missing
29. Harry Slough
30. Harry Haver
31. Philip Hertel
32. Clearance McCavit
33. Raymond Breininger
34. Harold Slough
35. Guy (?) Harador
36. Ford Locy
37. Charlie Arend
38. Francis Heckman
39. Bernard Arend
40. John Gillian
41. Ruth Lovejoy
My father, Byron Breininger, grew up in Mark Center and always said that his first school (appx. 1924) was a one room school house with a pot belly stove. After several years, he transferred to the "new" school. His father, Howard Breininger, built the brick general store (1914) and operated it until about 1931. Since the family lived close to the store, is anyone aware of such a school and where it was located?
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