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Historic Schools of Sullivan County, Missouri

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Bowman Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Ackley School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R21W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Bowman School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R21W	Named for the township family pioneers. Submit records
Crouch School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R21W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Morris School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R21W	Often confused with Morris Township schools. Submit records
Suddarth School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R21W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Buchanan Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Alamo School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Bairdstown School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R22W	Served the early historic Bairdstown settlement area. Submit records
Enterprise School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Independent School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R22W	A non-standard independent rural operating tract. Submit records
Milo School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Clay Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Gatlin School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Geralds School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R22W	Associated with early land entries of the Geralds family. Submit records
Low Gap School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R22W	Named for its distinct local geographic low-pass typography. Submit records
Midway School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Oakhaven School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Duncan Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Banner School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Brantley School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Chappell School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Named for local land-patenting Chappell family lines. Submit records
Dunlap School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Linked historically to early settlers near the old Dunlap trails. Submit records
Grubtown School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Colloquial local naming convention for the historic schoolhouse neighborhood. Submit records
Jackson School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R22W	Do not confuse with Jackson Township schools. Submit records

Jackson Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Boynton School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Served the children surrounding the Boynton settlement zone. Submit records
Jackson Corners School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Jacobs School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Kiddville School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Preserves the memory of the early vanished community of Kiddville. Submit records
Polly School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Sterling School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Liberty Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Ames School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R20W	Associated with early family landholdings outside Milan. Submit records
Center School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R20W	Centrally situated district explicitly inside Liberty bounds. Submit records
Highland School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R20W	Named for its elevated construction clearing. Submit records
Overton School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T62N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Morris Township Historic Rural Schools

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School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Baquet School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R18W	Reflects early settler surnames in the Southeast county tier. Submit records
Clear Creek School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R18W	Erected adjacent to the Clear Creek waterways. Submit records
Dry Creek School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
East Winigan School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R18W	Rural precursor outlying the consolidated Winigan district lines. Submit records
Hillcrest School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Penn Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Bollman School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R18W	Named for local Bollman family property lines. Submit records
Greentown School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R18W	Served the old historical community layout of early Greentown. Submit records
Livonia School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R18W	Not to be confused with Livonia town systems in neighboring counties. Submit records
Pennville School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R18W	The original country schoolhouse asset for the early Pennville locality. Submit records
Safe Guard School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T64N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Pleasant Hill Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Buffalo School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R20W	Named for local creek branch systems running south into Linn County. Submit records
Crescent School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Hooker School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R20W	Erected on tracts deeded from original Hooker homestead lines. Submit records
Maple Grove School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R20W	Traditional descriptive name referencing an adjoining sugar maple grove. Submit records
Purdy School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R20W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster

Polk Township Historic Rural Schools

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School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Baldwin School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R19W	Linked to Baldwin lineage land entries near old country road cuts. Submit records
Cora School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R19W	Served country children around the historic small post-office tier of Cora. Submit records
High Point School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R19W	Named strictly for its topography on an explicit ridge elevation. Submit records
Owasco School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R19W	Preserves the geographic location name of the historic Owasco settlement. Submit records
Yankee Ridge School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R19W	Fascinating Post-Civil War name reflecting Union sympathies of incoming settlers. Submit records

Taylor Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Ash Grove School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	Named for local stands of white ash timber tracts. Submit records
Block School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Corner School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	So named because it sat precisely on a four-corner township crossroads intersection. Submit records
Dynamic School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	Unusual late-19th-century conceptual name given by its early school board. Submit records
Elm Woods School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Valparaiso School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T61N, R21W	Named after the old historic village footprint of Valparaiso, Missouri. Submit records

Union Township Historic Rural Schools

School Name	Dist. #	Opened	Closed	Location (T-R-S)	Historical Notes & Photographic Records
Abernathy School	Dist. 11	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W, Sec 4	Land entry records show close association with Abernathy family plats. Submit records
Billings School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Blair School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Named for the historic Blair lineage tracts in eastern Sullivan. Submit records
Clifton School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Colfax School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Likely named during or after Schuyler Colfax's prominent national political era. Submit records
Fairview School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Common descriptive title used within the central-eastern township. Submit records
Hazel Green School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Named for the massive banks of wild hazel brush lining nearby creek fences. Submit records
Locke School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Data missing. Have history, photos, or dates? Contact Webmaster
Muddy Valley School	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	T63N, R18W	Descriptive vernacular reference to the local muddy creek bottom lowlands. Submit records
Payne School	Dist. 42	c. 1870s	c. 1950s	T63N, R18W, Sec 14	Named for early Payne family land donors. Located near Payne Cemetery. See historical profile page.

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Other Historic School Resources

State Historical Society of Missouri: Explore the SHSMO Plat Maps of Missouri collection. Contains digitized county atlases (dating from 1875 to 1921) that clearly mark the exact locations, district numbers, and names of early rural schools.

See FamilySearch Digital Books: Check out the An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Sullivan County, Missouri to find township-level maps showing the layout of the county in the late 1800s.

Visit the Genealogy Village website and scroll down to the "History of the Schools". This writeup cites names of people involved with these schools.

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