History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . CHOIR OF ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHrifCH. FALLS PIONEERS OF RICHu^RDSON COTNTY. RICHARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 337 The school district was organized in 1859, with David Dorrington,Anderson Miller and Thomas Mclntyre as trustees. F. M. Dorringtonwas the first teacher under the new regime, and ta\ight the first schoolduring the academic year of 1859-60. The following year the first districtschool house was erected a short distance southeast of the court housesquare. The new huilding, although a vast improvement
History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . CHOIR OF ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHrifCH. FALLS PIONEERS OF RICHu^RDSON COTNTY. RICHARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 337 The school district was organized in 1859, with David Dorrington,Anderson Miller and Thomas Mclntyre as trustees. F. M. Dorringtonwas the first teacher under the new regime, and ta\ight the first schoolduring the academic year of 1859-60. The following year the first districtschool house was erected a short distance southeast of the court housesquare. The new huilding, although a vast improvement on the variousmakeshifts that had been in use previously, was far from an elaborate struc-ture. It was solidly built and capable of housing far more pupils thanthere was any immediate prospect of the town furnishing, but it was innocentof paint, both inside and out, and its seats were not calculated to affordSybaritic pleasures. As the only pubHc place where meetings of any sortcould be conveniently held, it was constantly appropriated for various uses,varying from the dignity of a court room to the uproarious mirth of someminst
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