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Extinct and Present High Schools in Ross County

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Trying this out for size. Many were due to consolidations in the mid 1950's and mid-1960's.

EARLY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ROSS COUNTY

The first schools in Ross County were all supported by subscription or by assessment upon the patrons according to the number of children they sent to school. There was no law requiring the establishment of public schools, after the modern fashion, until 1825, and it was a good while after that before anything closely resembling the common school system of today had been evolved. It should not be hastily concluded from this that education was neglected. Parents who could afford it gave their children the advantage of good schools, as good as could be maintained, and among those who were very poor there was much self-sacrifice that the children might be educated and prepared for better success than their fathers and mothers in the struggle of life. Some very poor boys in Ohio, in that period when there were no common schools, supplemented the little schooling they could obtain by firelight reading, and so beginning, became in later years the great men of the State, and a few of them the greatest men of the nation. The difference, comparing the present with the early part of the nineteenth century in Ross county, is that now the schools are open without cost to boys and girls, without regard to their family importance or family wealth, and it is no disgrace to attend a free school. Then it was, and free schools were sometimes called "pauper" schools. So, it may be observed, we are more truly democratic today than the fathers who considered themselves the special champions of human equality.

The first schoolhouse in Chillicothe, says Williams' history, was a small log cabin, built some time before 1800, on the northeast corner of Fourth and Paint streets, on the spot afterward occupied by the residence of Joseph Sill. There was no such building there in 1810, and the location given may he wrong. But at whatever spot the school was kept, it appears that the first, or one of the first, to teach, was Nathaniel Johnston, of Irish extraction, and uncle of Mrs. James

McLandburgh. After teaching many years in Chillicothe, he made his home upon a farm in Springfield township, where he died in 1837. Says the Centennial Gazette: "The first school house in this place [Chillicothe] was made of logs and stood near the old graveyard which used to be on the bank of the river immediately west of the present Bridge street bridge. It was built by private subscription about 1799, and was used as a school until February, 1802, when it was sold by trustee Thomas Dick." On April 1, 1802, John Hutt, a brother of the first supervisor at Chillicothe, opened a girl's school to take the place of the one that had been kept in a log house near the upper end of what is now Bridge street, on Water.

As settlements were made in other parts of the county, schools were established in a similar manner, often being held in such log cabins as happened to be empty. In Green township a log school-house was built near the home of Taylor Moore, as early as 1810, another near the old Pleasant church about 1815. Long school-house, of hewed logs, was built with Harmon DeHaven as the architect, about 1812, and others followed as the needs of the people increased. Among the early teachers were Jonathan Griffith, Jacob Evans, Hugh Sherry, Moses Brown, Henry Halverstot, Henry Emstow, Alexander Gordon.

In Colerain James S. Webster taught the first school at Adelphi, using a loghouse which also served as church. The first schoolhouse proper was built between the two little streams east of Hallsville, on the south side of the pike in 1827. In 1844 or 1845 the township boasted a brick schoolhouse, of one room, in which Thomas Armstrong was the first teacher, and in 1870 a handsome and expensive house, of two rooms, was built at Adelphi.

*Here are the ones that come to mind. Let me know if anyone knows the mascot and history of their sports programs or any corrections.

#1. Chillicothe High School...Cavaliers 1853

The public schools of Chillicothe were organized under what was known as the Akron law, about 1849, and in 1850 two building sites were purchased by the board of education, one in the northwestern part of the city, now occupied by the Western building, and one nearly opposite the present Baltimore & Ohio railroad depot. Bonds were issued to defray the expenses of building; in the following year a portion of the grounds of the Academy were purchased for a central building, and two of the buildings, the eastern and western, were completed soon after the great fire of 1852. Before the completion of the buildings, Allen G. Latham was the president of the board of education, and Daniel W. Hearn the first superintendent Thomas C. Hearn, principal of the high school for boys; Sarah M. Burnside, principal of the high school for girls. Besides these were secondary schools for each sex, and primary schools in which the girls and boys were mingled, and there was an enumeration of 2,168 of school age.

When the buildings were completed and the schools graded, L. E. Warner was made superintendent of the system, and in 1853, when the central school was completed, the high schools were brought together there. James Long was superintendent in 1854, and he was succeeded in 1855 by Edward H. Allen, who reorganized the schools with the grades of primary, secondary, grammar and high school, covering a period of twelve years' instruction, and a general superintendent was dispensed with, the management being reposed in a board of superintendence, including the high and grammar school principals. This system continued until 1874. The members of this board in 1861, Edward H. Allen, Benjamin F. Stone and James A. Morgan, resigned in the fall of 1861 to enter the Union army. The first class to complete the course of study and graduate in 1859 was Maria McNeil, Margaret McKell and Olivia Alston. In 1855 the school library was established, which grew with aid from the teachers, local societies and the State, to seventeen hundred volumes in 1860.

The first eastern school building was sold, and a new building at the northwest corner of Main and Bridge streets completed in 1872 at a cost of about seventy-five thousand dollars, and about the same time an addition was made to the western building at a cost of $10,000. In 1874 the schools of the city were reorganized, under one general superintendent, with principals at each building, and the classification of primary, grammar and high schools adopted, with four years' instruction in each.

A building for colored pupils was erected on South Walnut street in 1874, and in 1875 the Old Academy building was refitted for the use of the central school, adding four rooms to the accommodation.

The board of education of Chillicothe consists of two members elected from each of the six wards, and its present organization is as follows: , President, Albert E. Culter ; clerk, F. C. Secrest ; treasurer, Geo. Wooster. Members of the Board: First ward, Forrest C. Seerest, Lucius Burgeon; Second ward, A. I. Fullerton, Geo. Wooster; Third ward, Albert E. Culter, W. W. Gunther ; Fourth ward, John Doerres, Charles E. Larimore; Fifth ward, Gilbert E. Robbins, Albert Keim ; Sixth ward, James I. Boulger, John Miller. The public schools occupy seven convenient and commodious buildings known by the following designations : High school, new high school, central school, eastern school, southern school, western school and Jackson school. These are in charge of the following named principals, in the order named: George H. Bemis, F. W. Yaple, Wade J. Byerly, Helen E. Veail, H. E. Streightenberger and Anna J. Hayes. There are five special teachers, of penmanship and drawing, music and German, and in the High School there are instructors making specialties of Latin and Greek, history, German and French, and natural sciences. Eighteen teachers are employed in the grammar grades, and thirty-two in the primary, with three substitute teachers under pay. The monthly pay roll, during the school year, aggregates above four thousand dollars. The contingent and schoolhouse expenses augment these figures materially, hence the school expenses of the city may be conservatively estimated at five thousand dollars per school month. The school property and apparatus, in the various departments, foots up into the hundreds of thousands. N. H. Chaney, D. D., recently retired, was superintendent of the city schools for several years, and possessed the confidence of teachers, pupils, and patrons in a remarkable degree. He is recognized as one of the ablest educators in the State, and his efficiency and good standing among his subordinates have had much to do with the high standard of excellence attained by Chillicothe's public schools. Dr. Chaney's successor is Prof. M. E. Hard, formerly of Sidney, O.

The city of Chillicothe provides education for pre-school through grade 12 students. The Chillicothe City School District includes the following facilities: Allen Elementary; Mt. Logan Elementary, previously Mt. Logan Middle School; Tiffin Elementary; Worthington Elementary; Western Latchkey/Preschool/Western Administration Office, the headquarters of the Board of Education;Chillicothe Middle School; and Chillicothe High School, which was expanded extensively and dedicated on August 20, 2006.

#2. Liberty Township High School (Londonderry) ended in 1955? Consolidated with Richmondale. Mascot Name?

*William Slaughter taught a school in the east part of Liberty Township during the winter of 1806-7. John A. Dailey was another early teacher. The log house in which Mr. Dailey taught was burned after being used for only one week. This building of the truly pioneer type was located on section fifteen. A building was then hastily constructed on section fourteen, in which Mr. Palley was permitted to finish the term. His successor was John Stretch, a carpenter, who worked at his trade during the summer months, and taught school in winter. Stretch was the designer and builder of most of the residences and barns in the locality which were pretentious enough to require the services of a skilled mechanic. A school was taught on land belonging to Mr. Rawles in the west part of the township about 1818. The teacher was an old man named Greenlee. A little later a school was established to the east of Walnut creek on land subsequently owned by the Kelleys. These were the pioneer schools, from which have grown a most complete educational system, with eleven modern school houses, located at convenient distances from all of the pupils. There is a good graded school at Londonderry, where pupils desiring higher education than that afforded by the district schools may attend at nominal cost.

#3. Richmondale High School.....Mascot name?

#4. Centralia High School....Bobcats consolidated with Kingston High School to form Zane Trace in 1967?

#5. Kingston High School....mascot name? Consolidated with Centralia High School to form Zane Trace High School in 1967?

#6. Buckskin High School(South Salem, Ohio)?....mascot name?

#7. Twin High School (Bourneville, Ohio)....mascot name? Consolidated with Bainbridge High School to form Paint Valley High School in?

#8. Bainbridge High School....mascot name? Consolidated with Twin High School to form Paint Valley High School in?

Paint Valley High School is the result of centralizing the high schools in both Bainbridge and Bourneville. The original schools were built around the early to mid-60s. Paint Valley added a junior high wing in 1975. In 2003 Paint Valley combined both Bainbridge and Twin Elementary schools into a brand new elementary/middle school building located beside the high school. The elementary school formerly known as Twin Elementary was auctioned off and demolished in 2008. While Bainbridge elementary had a boiler accident and was partially demolished in 2006.

#9. Aldephia High School....mascot name?

*Adelphi, originally spelled "Adelphia," is the principal town in Colerain township. It is located in the northeast corner of the township and county. The town was surveyed and laid out by Gen. Nathaniel Massie for Reuben and Henry Abrams, who entered the east half of section one on the 16th of April, 1804. The town was laid out the same year. Reuben Abrams was one of the colony that settled Chillicothe in 1796. The town is pleasantly located on an elevated table land, comparatively level, about midway between the Salt Creek valley, which lies to the north and east, and the adjoining uplands to the west and south. In 1804 there were but one or two small clearings in the forest, but each year after the town was established some settlers were attracted to it. While Adelphi had no phenomenal growth, its progress was steady and substantial. The population has been nearly stationary for the last twenty years, increase in that direction being retarded to some extent by the advent of railroads in nearby towns. Adelphi was incorporated by act of the State legislature in 1838. The first officers elected under the new regime were James Hall, mayor ; John Patterson, Abraham Cartlich, John A. Smith, William Hugh, and Peter Marker, councilmen ; John Lewis, recorder; John Fowler, treasurer, and Amos Howell, marshal.

One of the early justices of the peace in Colerain township was Col. Isaac Dawson, probably installed in 1804, and on January 12th of that year he solemnized the marriage of Alex Cowgle and Mary Crow, the first marriage in the township of which we have any record. George Will was a justice of the peace in 1806, and re-elected in 1809 and 1812. James Webster was a justice in 1807, and Jacob Larick served a term beginning in July, 1808. Benjamin Williams served two terms, elected in 1809 and 1812. John Perkins was dignified with the honors of the office two terms, elected in 1808 and 1811.

The first white child born in Adelphi was Israel Zimmerman, December 12, 1804 ; but his sister Hannah was born in Colerain township in April, 1802. The earliest recorded death is that of a child named Joseph Engle, July, 1807. His grave is in the Lutheran cemetery, marked with a plain sandstone slab, evidently taken from the bed of some nearby creek.

#10. Frankfort High School....mascot name? Consolidated with Clarksburg High School in? To form Adena High School in?

#11. Clarksburg High School ....mascot name? Consolidated with Frankfort High School in? To form Adena High School in?

#12. Union TWP.....Unioto High School.....Shermans.

Unioto High School is a public high school near Chillicothe, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Union-Scioto Local School District. Their school colors are purple and gold.

The name "Unioto" is derived from the two townships that the school district primarily serves in Ross County, Union Township and Scioto Township.

The current high school building is situated on land that was once owned and operated by the United States Army as Camp Sherman. Camp Sherman operated from 1917 until 1920. Its purpose was to train U.S. Army soldiers for service in France during the First World War.

History
(From the Chillicothe Gazette, 1962)

The first school house in Union Township was built about 1800, at or near the log house of Mr. Joseph Clark. It was a structure with a puncheon floor and a roof of clapboards with eight-poles laid across to keep them on. The windows were made by cutting out a log for several feet on each side of the house and putting greased paper in the opening. One end of the house was almost entirely appropriated for a fireplace. The seats consisted of split slabs supported by wooden pins. In this manner the school houses were built for a number of years. A school was opened in a log cabin about a mile north of where Andersonville now stands, in 1815 or 1816, the teacher being a man by the name of Perkins. It was afterwards held in a school house on the Inghams’ farm. East of the village. A hewed log house was erected a short distance above Andersonville in 1823, and was used until the brick house in the village was erected. A school house was built at an early date where the Union Church now stands, and another where the upper part of the basin was, in 1814 or 1815, Mr. Young and Mr. Lowery were the teachers. One of the earliest schools was opened on the farm of Thomas Withgott in which Charles McCrea was one of the first teachers. The first school in the Cook neighborhood was kept in a six-cornered, round log school house, as early as 1805 or 1806. Ebeneezer Everts was one of the first school teachers there, teaching several terms. The first school organized under the School Law was the Quaker School, then kept in a hewed log school house.

The one room school houses of Union and Scioto townships were abandoned at the end of the school year 1935-1936, upon the recommendation of the State Department of Education. A new district was created using the name Union-Scioto Rural School. The school became known as “Unioto”, a contractive term taken from Union and Scioto. A tax levy of 3 ½ mils voted by the district evolved the sum of $50,000 which was matched by another $50,000 from the Federal government under the Public Works Administration and numbered as Project M OH 1021 R. The building site was purchased from Mr. George Garrison, on Egypt Pike, for the sum of $2,000. Construction was started in February of 1936, and the building was occupied September 23 of the same year. DeVoss and Donaldson were the architects, McCabe and Proctor were the contractors.

It was thought that colors of purple and gold were adopted at the suggestion of one of the board members whose Chillicothe class colors were purple and gold. The mascot name of “The Shermans” was later adopted when Supt. McMahon, former general in the United States Army, was superintendent of the Unioto School. Since Unioto lies just opposite the former site of WWI Camp Sherman, the suggestion of “The Shermans” was unanimously accepted by the student body. The Tank emblem became likewise a fitting symbol for the school.

In May of 1937, the Unioto High School graduated its first senior class of eight members.

One Room School Houses of the District1 The Hurst School, Egypt Pike and Cattail Road The Roush’s School, Stone Road The Bowdle School, Morrison and Albright Roads The Andersonville School, Andersonville Road The Dunlap School, Route 104 Sulpher Lick School, near Maple Grove Hotel School at the Ross County Infirmary Polk Hollow School, Polk Hollow Road The Steel School, Belleview Hill and Plyley’s Lane Shady Grove School, Plyley’s Lane Pleasant Valley School, Pleasant Valley Frenchtown School, Frenchtown Tootle School Springbank School Bier’s Run School

School Construction, Renovations 1936-2003:[1] 1936 – School erected on Egypt Pike 1957 – New Elementary School, with an addition in 1961 1973 – Intermediate Learning Center erected 1973 – New High School 1995 – Old High school renovated for use as Junior High School 2002 – New Elementary School 2002 – New Junior High School 2002 – New additions to High School 2003 – Demolition to old Elementary School

#13. Chillicothe Bishop Flaget (Catholic High School).......Panthers, Closed the High School in 1987-1988? Still operates K-8 School in Chillicothe.

#14. Huntington TWP High School.....Huntsmen

Ross county now has in the township districts 170 schoolhouses for elementary schools, and three high schools; in the separate districts 16 elementary schools and three high schools, making a grand total of 192 school buildings, with 268 rooms. The value of the school property in the township districts is $126,550; in the separate districts, $131,000, making an aggregate of $257,550. Two hundred and seventy-three teachers are employed, teaching thirty-one to thirty-two weeks in the township schools and thirty-six in the others, at salaries ranging from $34 to $85 per month. The enumeration of children of school age (between 6 and 21) is 12,267, of whom 9,500 are in the Virginia military district. The actual enrollment of pupils is 7:1 per cent of the enumeration in the township districts and 82 per cent in the separate districts. There are six high schools in the township districts and four in the separate districts. The average cost of tuition of the pupils enrolled is $9 in the elementary schools, and $15.60 in the high schools of the townships, and $9.40 in the elementary and $31.40 in the high schools of the separate districts. The county received from the State, mainly from the common school fund, $20,957 for the support of education in 1900; from local taxation $104,935; from the sale of bonds, $47,099 ; from all other sources, $1,930, making the total receipts but a little less than $175,000, to which should be added a balance on hand September 1. 1899, of $58,457, swelling the aggregate funds to $233,381. Out of this there was paid $83,344 to teachers in elementary schools, and $8,455 to teachers in high schools ; $2,855 for supervision, $2,136 on buildings and grounds, $2,800 on bonds and interest, and $24,300 for all other purposes, making an aggregate expenditure of $123,942. On September 1, 1900, the close of the fiscal year, the balance on hand was $109,438.

In the city of Chillicothe, with its seven schoolhouses and seventy-two school rooms, the total value of school property is $105,000, sixty-five teachers are employed, at salaries ranging from $43 to $100 ; the enumeration is 3,878, enrollment 2,471, daily attendance 1,989. The receipts for the year were $90,950 and expenditures $45,330.

In the county there are the village and special districts of Bainbridge, J. A. Shannon, superintendent, and school property valued at $10,000, annual expenditures, $3,332 ; Frankfort, J. A. Drushel, superintendent, property valued at $8,800, annual expenditures, $2,766 ; Hallsville, J. F. Warner, superintendent, property valued at $3,000, annual expenditures, $1,085: Kingston, A. L. Ellis, superintendent, property valued at $10,000, annual expenditures,

Among Ross county people who have become prominent in educational work may be mentioned Professor James Woodrow, formerly president of the University of South Carolina, son of Rev. Thomas Woodrow, at one time pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Chillicothe. In this connection may be named his cousin, President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University, whose mother was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Woodrow, born in Chillicothe. The late Prof. William Williams, the oldest and one of the most distinguished educators of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, was born in Chillicothe. Two connections of his, grand nephews, both of Chillicothe, hold places in the educational world, Dr. Charles Graham Dunlap, professor of English in the State University at Lawrence, Kan., and Dr. Frederick Levy Dunlap, assistant in the chemistry department of the University of Michigan. Lieut. Matthew Elting Hanna, son of Robert Hanna, a respected citizen of the vicinity of Richmond Dale, is distinguished for his work, under General Wood, in establishing the school system of Cuba, which was modeled after that of Ohio.

Present 6 SVC Schools in the Ross County

1. Bainbridge Paint Valley Bearcats

*Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
Boys Baseball – 1995

2. Chillicothe Unioto Shermans

*State Wide Success

Girls Basketball
2-time State Runner Ups(86-87, 88-89), also made one other trip to the State Final Four(94-95) 4-time District Champions

Boys Basketball
1-time State Runner Up(90-91)

Boys Cross Country
3-time Regional Champions(04-06)

Girls Volleyball
2-time State Final Four Qualifier

Baseball
2-time State Final Four Qualifier

Boys Soccer
1-time State Final Four Qualifier

Boys Track and Field is the best
1-time State Finals Qualifier

Girls Track and Field
1-time State Finals Qualifier 8th grade svc champs we beat zt 2004

3. Chillicothe Zane Trace Pioneers

*Zane Trace High School is a public high school near Chillicothe, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Zane Trace Local School District. Their nickname is the Pioneers.

4. Frankfort Adena Warriors

*Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
Boys Track and Field - 1972
Girls Track and Field - 1975
Girls Basketball – 1976,1994
Girls Volleyball – 1975,1976

5. Huntington Ross Huntington Huntsmen

*Huntington High School is a public high school in Huntington Township, Ohio, near Chillicothe, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Huntington Local School District. Their nickname is the Huntsmen. The Huntington Huntsmen's colors are Kelly Green and White.

6. Richmond Dale/Chillicothe Southeastern Panthers

*Southeastern High School is a public high school in Chillicothe, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Southeastern Local School District. Their nickname is the Panthers. They are in the Scioto Valley Conference. The school is located on 2003 Lancaster Road,Chillicothe, Ohio.


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