Sources used for the locations: 1886 Warner & Foote plat, 1903 Waukon
Standard plat, Huebinger & Co. Atlas, 1904, 1917
Waukon Standard plat & the 1917 Anderson Publishing
Co. plat; and various other sources as credited on the
individual pages. Miscellaneous
country school records & photos - Be sure to
check these files as they usually have info. from more
than one school!
- Spelling
Bee Contests Was
your ancestor a champion speller? A
contestant in a Spelling Bee?
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872(Franklin
& Linton twp., Rossville)
- Rural School Choir - a state-wide
program
New!
June 2024-
nearly 300 Allamakee co. children named
- School
news, odds & ends from various county
schools & years
- Rural
school notes, graduates & misc. other,
1923
- Rural
school notes, teachers & other misc.
info., 1932
- Rural
school notes, graduates & misc. other,
1933
- Rural school notes,
graduates & misc. other, 1934
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1935
- Rural school graduates, 1936 (partial list)
- Rural school graduates, 1937
- Rural school graduates, 1938 (south-west twp.
schools)
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1939
- Rural schools 8th Grade
Graduates, 1940's
- Franklin, Ludlow & Post
twp teachers - misc years
- Rural school graduates &
essay winners, 1950
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1951 (misc. schools)
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1952
- Rural schools &
teachers, 1963
- One-Room
Country School -Trying to keep the past from
fading from memory - 2008 news
article
- Misc.
county school photos & school children
- These photos are known to be of Allamakee
co. schools and/or schoolchildren - can you
help to ID them?
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Center township
- Center No. 1, Ferring
school,
Section 3 (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886
& 1917 Anderson plats) that school isn't
shown on the 1917 Waukon Standard plat *
photos & misc. other data
- Center No. 2, possibly called Three
Corners school (needs verification), on
boundry of Sections 7 & 8 (1886 &
subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 3, Shogren school, NW portion of Section 20 (1886
& subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 4, Bakkum school, east of Elon, approx. 1¼ mi.,
over the section line of Section 31, in
Section 32 (1886 & subsequent plat maps)
- Center No. 5, Drake school, Section 15, SE corner (1886 plat),
Section 23 NW corner (1917 plats)
- Center No. 6, Elon school, Section 33, slightly SW of Elon on
the Waukon-Elon Rd. (1886 & subsequent
plat maps)
- Center No. 7, Dalby school, Section 25 (1875 A.T. Andreas
Atlas) and Section 36, far NW corner (1886
Warner-Foote plat)
- Center No. 8, Faegre school, SE part of Section 9 (1886 &
subsequent plats)
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Fairview township
- Ion
school - Section 24, village of
Ion, across from the public square (1886
Warner-Foote Plat) - misc. school notes
- Fairview No. 1 - location needed
- Fairview No. 2 - Section 15, SW corner (1886
Warner-Foote Plat)
- Fairview No. 3 - Section 33, along Yellow
River, abt 1 mi. S of school in Section 18
(1903 Waukon Standard Plat, 1917 Anderson
Plat)
- Fairview No. 4 - Section 15, SW of village of
Johnsons Port (1903 Waukon Standard Plat)
- Fairview No. 5, Section 18, east side on
bountry with Section 17 (1886 Warner-Foote
Plat & 1917 Anderson Plat)
- Fairview No. ?, Section 28, along Yellow
River, abt 1 mi. N of school #3 (1903 Waukon
Standard Plat)
- Fairview No. 7 - location needed
- Fairview
No. 8 Irish Ridge school,
Section 25 not far south of Ion and just
north of boundry with Sect. 36 (1886
Warner-Foote Plat, 1903 Waukon Standard Plat
& 1917 Anderson Plat). The school was 9
mi. east of Monona, Clayton co. - misc.
school notes
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Franklin township
Important note! The
locations & school number of Franklin twp.
country schools should be independently verified as
not all of the plat maps ID the school by number.
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes several Franklin twp. schools
- Franklin No. 1, just south of the section
line of Section 36 (1886 plat map) this school does not appear on
subsequent plat maps
- Franklin
No. 2, Section
8, aka Forest Mills school, does not appear on the 1886 plat
map, is shown on the 1917 Anderson
Plat) - photo
- Franklin No. 3, Section 15,
aka Red School - photos & some history
- Franklin
No. 4, SW part of Section 21 - misc. school notes
- Franklin No. 5, Volney
school, Section 13, village of Volney
- Franklin
No. 6, Section 24, a short
distance south of Smithfield (1886 plat map) - misc. info.
- Franklin No. 7, Cherry
Valley, Section 19 - photos of school
& schoolchildren and other info.
- Franklin No. 8, Section 5, NW corner (1886
plat map & 1917 Anderson Plat) - photo/info. needed
- Franklin No. 9, Bear Hollow school, Section
12, near the center of the section (1886 plat
map & 1917 Waukon Standard plat map) - photo/info. needed
- Franklin
No. 10, Section 33 - misc school notes
- Franklin No. 11, Section 2 (1917 plat map: may
be the same school as shown as No. 9 on
the 1886 plat map) - misc.
info.
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French Creek
township
- Early country schools &
teachers -
Clear Creek, English Bench, French Creek
& Wheatland
- French Creek schools - unknown district number or local
names of these schools, help us ID them!
- French Creek No. 1 - Section 16, just north of the
boundry w/section 21 (1886 plat map &
1917 Anderson Publishing Co. plat) * Photo
& misc. notes
- French Creek No. 2 - Section 2 (1886 plat map)
- French Creek No. 3 - Section
29 (1886 plat map)
- French Creek No. 4 - Section
23 (1886 plat map)
- French Creek No. 5 - Section
33 (1886 plat map)
- French Creek No. 6 - Section 17 (1886 plat map)
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Hanover township
- Hanover No. 1 - Section 9 (1886
plat map) and Section 10 (1903 plat map) -
misc. info.
- Hanover No. 2 - Section 29 -
Photos & misc. data
- Hanover No. 3, Section 23
(1886 & 1903 plat maps) and Section 14
(1917 plat map) - photo/info. needed
- Hanover No. 4 - Section 26 - Photo of school
children ca1930/1931 & misc. other
- Iowa
River School, Section 5 (not on
1886 plat map, appears on 1903 & 1917
plat maps) - School notes New!
6/10/2024
- Vosse Vagen School - Section 6
(1886 plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Iowa township (not
including New Albin town school)
- Iowa twp. No. 1 - Section 15
(1886 Warner & Foote atlas & 1903
Wauon Standard Map)
- Iowa twp. No.. 2 - Section 17
(1886 Warner & Foote atlas & 1903
Wauon Standard Map)
- Sand
Cove school - Iowa twp. No. 3 - boundry Sections
27 & 28 (1886 Warner & Foote atlas,
1903 Waukon Standard Map, 1913 Iowa Roadway
Map & Anderson Publishing Atlas, 1917)
-School notes & photos of school &
schoolchildren New content added! 6/10/2024
- Sandbank
or Morgan school - Iowa twp. No. 4 - Section 29 (1886 Warner &
Foote atlas, 1903 Waukon Standard Map,
Anderson Publishing Atlas, 1917). - School
notes, photos & a bit of history New content
added! 6/10/2024
- Iowa twp. No. 5, aka Hammell
school -
Section 17, approx 1 mi. south of school No.
2 (Atlas of Allamakee co., 1941 & Map
Book & Farm Directory, 1950). The school
noted on these sources is not found on
previous available maps. - School notes New!
6/9/2024
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Jefferson township
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes Rossville school notes
- Jefferson twp. No. 1, Section
12 (1886 Warner & Foote plat)
- Jefferson twp. No. 2, east
side of Section 8 (1886 Warner & Foote
plat, 1917 Anderson plat)
- Jefferson twp. No. 3, Section 18 (1886 Warner &
Foote plat, 1917 Anderson plat) - Constructed
c1880's, undated photo
- Jefferson twp. No. 4, at the
4-corner intersection of Sections 15, 16, 21
& 22 (1886 Warner & Foote plat, no
number assigned to this school on the 1917
Anderson plat)
Jefferson twp. No. 4, Section 23 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat - 2 schools noted to be No.
4 on the 1886 plat; noted to be #4 on the
1917 Anderson plat)
- Rossville
school, Jefferson twp. No. 7, west side Section 26 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat; 1917 Anderson plat) - 1935
schoolchildren photo & school house
photos
- Jefferson twp. No. 8, east
side Section 29 (1886 Warner & Foote
plat, 1917 Anderson plat)
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LaFayette township
- Capoli School - Section 9, NE
corner (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886
Warner-Foote plat, Huebinger & Co. Atlas,
1904 & 1917 Waukon Standard plat) - there
are 2 Capoli schools on various maps, more
info. needed to pinpoint this school
- Lafayette Center school -
Section 15 (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886
Warner-Foote plat, Huebinger & Co. Atlas,
1904 & 1917 Waukon Standard plat)
- Prairie school aka Thompson Corner
school - Section 30 (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas,
1886 Warner-Foote plat, Huebinger & Co.
Atlas, 1904 & 1917 Waukon Standard plat),
abt 1 mi. N of the Tompson Corner ME church *
1934 school notes & 1949 auction notice
- LaFayette No. 5, aka Russell school,
aka Heytman's school - Range
2W Section 18 (1886 Warner-Foote plat,
Huebinger & Co. Atlas, 1904 & 1917
Waukon Standard plat) * attendence book
- LaFayette No. 7, aka Three Corners school -
Section 34, abt 2 mi east of the Thompson
Corner cemetery (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas,
Huebinger & Co. Atlas, 1904 & 1917
Waukon Standard plat) New content
added! 6/10/2024
- Milton
school -
Section 18, located within the (now defunct)
village of Milton, described in 1859 as
having "a large school house", it
was one of 3 towns that became known as
Village Creek * School notes (1872)
- Village Creek school - located within the village of
Village Creek; is possibly the same school
called Lafayette Dist. #3 ca1870s * Photos
& other info.
- Wexford school - Section 25 (1875 A.T. Andreas
Atlas,1886 Warner-Foote plat, Huebinger &
Co. Atlas, 1904 & 1917 Waukon Standard
plat) * Photo if schoolchildren c1900
- Harpers Ferry
Independent School - see above in
the Town Schools section
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Lansing township
- Lansing twp. No. 1 & 2 -
Section 20 (1875 Andreas Atlas, 1886
Warner-Foote plat as No. 2 and 1917 G.W.
Anderson Plat as No. 1) School number is not
consistant in the various atlas'
- Lansing twp. No. 3 aka
Calhoun school, Brick school - Location varies; 1875
Andreas Atlas in Section 30, 1886
Warner-Foote plat as Calhoun school No. 1 in
Section 32 - Various school notes * 1905
report card * Photo of schoolmates, ca 1915
- Lansing twp. No. 4 - Section 26 (1875 Andreas Atlas,
1886 Warner-Foote & 1917 G.W. Anderson
Plat) - School notes
- Lansing twp. No. 5 - Section 15 (1886 Warner-Foote
plat, 1903 Waukon Standard map & 1917
G.W. Anderson Plat) - School notes New content
added! 6/10/2024
- Van
Coulee / Van Cooley school / Lansing twp. No. 6
- Section 12 (1917 G.W. Anderson Plat) -
School notes * Photo & Carrie Reed 1891
report card New content added! 6/9/2024
- Lansing twp. No. 7 - Section
28 on the 1903 Waukon Standard map
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Linton township
- County
Superintendent's School Notes - 1872
- includes several Linton twp. schools
- Egan school, Linton twp. No. 1
- in the south of Section 2 (1886 plat map) -
photo/info. needed
- Big Foot school, Linton twp.
No. 2 - NE
corner Section 7 (1886 plat & 1917
Anderson Publishing Plat)
- Figgie school, Linton twp.
No. 3 - SE
corner Section 29 -1886 plat & 1917
Anderson Publishing Plat - pupil photo (ca
1932-1935)
- Sixteen school, Linton twp.
No. 4 - Section
16; Photos * Teachers 1906-1958 * Students
1930-1958 * misc. items
- Suttle Creek school, Linton twp. No 5 -
Section 19 along Suttle Creek (1886
plat & 1917 Anderson Publishing Plat) -
photo/info. needed
- Linton
twp. No. 6 - Section 26 (1886 plat map), Section 27 (1917
Anderson Publishing Plat) - misc. info.
- Linton twp. No. 7 - Section 13 (1917 Anderson
Publishing Plat)
- Linton twp. No. 8 - Section 25, on the
southern border with Section 26 (1886 plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Ludlow township
- Ludlow
No. 1, SW corner of Section 1
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 2, SE corner of Section 4
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 3, Krumme school, Section 6 - photo & misc.
info.
- Ludlow
No. 4, SE corner of Section 18
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc info.
- Ludlow
No. 5, NE corner of Section 21
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 6, NE
corner of Section 23 (1886 & 1917
plat maps) - misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 7, SE corner of Section 26
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 8, SW corner of Section 27
(1886 & 1917 plat maps) -
misc. info.
- Ludlow
No. 9, NE part of Section 31
(1886 & 1917 plat maps)
- German Presbyterian Parochial
School, north central Section 9 (1886
plat map) - photo/info. needed
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Makee township
- Elk school, SW corner of
Section 27, at the intersection of Sections
27, 28, 33 & 34
- Fan
school, SE
corner of Section 26, at the intersection of
Sections 25, 26, 35 & 36 - photos &
history
- Hanson school #4, Section 22, north central area
- photos & misc. data
- Howard school, Section 8, center of the section
- Lycurgus
school,
Section 2, northwestern part, on the Church
road - history & photos of school /
school children
- Makee school, Section 18, not far north of
the section 19 boundry
- Paulk school, intersection of Sections 20,
21, 28 & 29 on Village Creek
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Paint Creek
township
- Cherry Mound school, Section
33 (1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat)
- Cross Roads school, Section 29
(1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat) - may be aka Big Foot
school
- Dahl school, Section 13 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Grimsgaard school, Section 15 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat map, not on 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Ness school, Section 9 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Northwest school, Section 6 (1886
Warner & Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson
plat)
- Paint Creek school, Section 25 boundry with
Section 36 (1886 Warner & Foote plat map,
1917 Anderson plat)
- School, Section 18 (1917 Anderson plat), no
other identification given for this school
- Storla school, Section 11 (1886 Warner &
Foote plat map, 1917 Anderson plat)
- Waterville school:
Waterville High School
1923-1960
- history, graduates, teachers,
superintendents, principals, board, janitors,
cooks
Waterville HS Class of 1956 - roster & photos of the class
Waterville undergraduates:
kindergarten - junior class, 1960
Waterville
school misc items & photos - various. years Updated!
07/17/2024
(ID's made 1925 girls basketball team)
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Post township
- Unknown country school -
Postville area - 1906 photo, might be the Minert
school
- Empire school, in SE corner of
the NE corner of Section 31, 1 mi. NW of
Postville (1886 plat map)
- Evergreen
school,
Section 2 - photo & misc. items
- Hardin school, village of
Hardin, Section 36 (1886 plat map)
- Highland
school,
Section 8 - misc. data
- Minert
school,
Section 21 - Photos, school, school children
and more
- Myron
school, Section 3 - misc. info.
- South Grove school, Section 35 (1886 plat map) - misc.
info.
- West
Grove school, Section 23 - history & misc.
other records
- Woodland school, Section 20
(1886 plat map)
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Taylor township
- Climax
school,
aka Taylor twp. No. 2 -in
the Climax District, center of Section 17
(1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886 & 1917
plat maps) * Photos * Records, misc. yrs. *
School notes Updated! 6/11/2024
- Excelsior
school,
aka Taylor twp. No. 6 - in
the Excelsior District, SW corner, Section 5
(1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1882 & 1917
plat maps) *School notes New!
6/11/2024
- Mound school, aka Taylor twp.
No. 1, in the Mound City District, far NW
corner, Section 11 (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas)
and SE corner, Section 3 (1886 & 1917
plat maps)
- Paint Rock / Paint Creek
school,
possibly aka Taylor twp. No. 3 - in the
Little Paint District, NW corner Section 32
(1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886 & 1917
plat maps); two miles west of Harpers Ferry -
School notes
- Spring Brook school, aka Oil Spring school,
aka Taylor twp. No. 4 - in
the Spring Brook district, Range 2, Section 7
(1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886 & 1917
plat maps) * photos, students & misc.
other data
- St. Joseph school - SE corner
Section 21 near St. Joseph's Catholic church
(1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas, 1886 & 1917
plat maps)
- Waukon Junction school, aka Taylor twp. No. 8
- in the Paint Rock District, southern tier
Section 4 (1875 A.T. Andreas Atlas) and
southern tier Section 3 in the village of
Waukon Junction (1886 plat map, shown on the
inset of Waukon Junction); about 4 miles
south of Harpers Ferry
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Union City
township
- Early country schools &
teachers -
Clear Creek, English Bench, French Creek
& Wheatland districts
- Clear Creek school - No. 4, Section 34 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat & 1917 Anderson
Publishing Co.) * Misc. notes
- Columbia school - No. 6,
Section 16 (1886 Warner & Foote plat
& 1917 Anderson Publishing Co.)
- English Bench school - No. 3, Section 32 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat & 1917 Anderson
Publishing Co.) * Photos & misc. notes
- Harmony
school -
No. 2, Section 20 (1903 Waukon Standard map
& 1917 Anderson Publishing Co.) * Photo,
ca 1910
- Union school - No 5, Section 8 (1886 Warner
& Foote plat & 1917 Anderson
Publishing Co.) * Misc. notes
- Wheatland
school No.
1, Section 15 SE corner (1886 Warner &
Foote); Section 13 (1917 Anderson plat) *
School roster - ca1915
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Union Prairie
township
- Stone School, Union Prairie
No. 2, aka
Rock School - SW corner Section 10, where
Sections 9, 10, 15 & 16 intersect (1886
Plat & 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat where it
is called the Rock School) - Photos &
brief history
- Eells School - NE section 27, approx. ¼ mile
west of Mt. Olivet cemetery (1886 Plat map) -
Photos & brief history
- Emmett School - SW section 21, where Sections 20,
21, 28 & 29 intersect (1886 Plat map
& 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) - photo of
the school
- Helming School - Section 34, north-central just
south of the border with section 27 (1886
Plat map & 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) -
photo & misc. items
- Pleasant
Ridge School, aka P-ridge/Pea Ridge/Patterson
Creek school or Jones schoolhouse - Located
west bountry of Section 12 - Daily Registers
1901-1905, photo of the school & photos
of school children; and misc. other from
various years
- Southwest School, aka Southwestern Bell school - SW
corner of Section 29 at intersection of
sections 29, 30, 31 & 32 (1886 Plat map
& 1964 Title Atlas Co. Plat) - photo
& misc. items
- Union Prairie No. 5 - NW corner Section 17, where
Sections 7, 8, 17 & 18 intersect (1886
Plat map)
Union Prairie No. 6 - Section 8 (1917 Plat map)
No. 5 & No. 6 are the same school. Photos
& misc. history
- Union Prairie No. 8 - NW
corner of Section 5, on the border of Section
6 (1886 Plat map)
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Waterloo township
- Dorchester & Waterloo
Twp. District Rural schools: * Bear Creek (section 30) * Bergen
(section 9) * Dorchester (town) * New Galena
(section 35) * Washington (section 22) *
Waterloo Ridge (section 18)
Photos of pupils & misc. other data New content
added! 6/9/2024 & 6/11/2024
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