MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA SCHOOL NEWS

Source: Muscatine Journal, October 21, 1974
Submitted by Lynn McCleary, January 15, 2013

AUTUMN DAYS
Photo of School building

The leaves are falling around the Goshen Township School, south of West Liberty, in the autumn of its existence. Its students now are gone to the consolidated West Liberty Schools and the rows of seats are replaced by bales of straw and debris. All that remains are the stately Oak and Elm trees that once shaded kids at play. Originally the school served families in a radius of about two miles, with 12 to 15 students from kindergarten through eighth grade attending classes there. The land and the school now are owned by the Hildebrand family, whose farm surrounds the school. Hildebrand stored grain the building occasionally, and vandals have recently made a shambles of the interior, but the past still is visible in its exterior.