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Sand Bank or Morgan School No. 4
Section 29, Iowa Township


Morgan school, photographer A. Bruce Owens, 2003
Morgan school
photographer A. Bruce Owens, 2003

The old building is down the road from the Morgan farm house on land donated by my great grandfather. My grandmother Anna Bakewell Morgan lived in the Morgan house while teaching and before she married my grandfather. My mother Kay Morgan Owens taught her siblings Marietta, Marguerite and John.

The historical marker reads:
Morgan or Sand Bank School (Iowa Twp. No. 4) was built ca1890 and closed in 1953. Rose Zoll was the last teacher.

~contributed by A. Bruce Owens

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Sandbank Country School - photographed by Errin Wilker
Sandbank or Morgan Country School, 2006
~photographer Errin Wilker

This old schoolhouse in located outside of New Albin, in Iowa township, on county road A26 .  As of 2006, the school is still standing, but in very poor condition.  Someone has replaced the roof, the the foundation is crumbling as you can see in the photos.

Sandbank Country School, 2006 - photographed by E. Wilker
Sandbank or Morgan Country School, 2006

~Photos by Errin Wilker

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Iowa township No. 4, School notes, 1935
Elizabeth Rouster, Teacher

Nov. 22 found us at the close of our 11th week of school.

We wish to thank everyone who attended our dance.

Betty Lou and Lorna Weymiller, Thomas Moore and Bernard Hitchens have been neither absent nor tardy the past five weeks.

Halloween was observed by having a party.

~Source: The Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, Wednesday, December 4, 1935, Lansing, Iowa, Page 3
~transcribed by Cindy (Maust) Smith

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