Spindler School, Mark Township - 1919 - 1922

The Spindler School, District #9, was located on Jericho Road, near the intersection with Breininger Road, in Section 30 of Mark Township.

The class photos that follow were from clippings from the Hicksville News-Tribune. 

Spindler School, Mark Township, 1913 - 1916

From a newspaper clipping, unidentified paper and undated

Charles B. Core, Teacher

 1914

Spindler School, District 9, 1914 - Henry Gecowets, Teacher

1915

Henry Gecowets, Teacher

1916

Spindler School - Last One-Room School Standing in Mark Township

The Spindler School, District #9, in Mark Township is the last one room school still standing in Mark Township on the north side of Jericho Road between Rosedale and Breininger Roads.  Now used as a farm building by the Zeedyk family, the building once had a bell tower and a different front entrance where a garage type door now exists.  This building replaced a log school which was across the road.

The photo is from The Countyline newspaper, March 1, 1978

The building is also the last remnant of what once was the little village of Nebo, a town never platted or really organized.  Nebo (Nebo Corners) once had two churches, the school, and a couple of mills.   George W. Spealman chose the site on the north fork of Gordon Creek to settle and build his home, a store and post office; it would have faced the future site of the school.  He based the name, Nebo, on a Biblical verse from Deuteronomy: "That same day the Lord said to Moses, 'Go to Mount Nebo in the Abarim Mountains, in the land of Moab, across from Jericho.'"
According to the book, Ghost Towns of Northwest Ohio (Helwig and Nagel, 1976, available in the Defiance Public Library), about 1910, everything closed down and only a few old houses remained.