Boardman Township
Country Schools
Additional information or photos of any of the Monona twp. schools is welcome. If you have something to share please email the Clayton co. IAGenWeb coordinator. Unless otherwise credited, the information on this page was compiled by S. Ferrall.
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Boardman No. 1 & Boardman No. 2 - aka Pony Hollow schools - information on a separate page
Pony Hollow school was the first school in the township. Eventually there were two schools named Pony Hollow (upper & lower).~~
Boardman No. 3, aka Cain school, District No. 3 - The 1886 Warner-Foote plat shows this school located in Section 17. A newspaper article about county schools printed in The Clayton County Register, February 18, 1954 gives the following information about this school: "...research through deed and abstract records of the county yields the [following ] information ... H.L. Meyer, local abstractor ... has searched the records for the origin of [this school], but has found no conveyance of any kind. Apparently when [the] school was needed back in the early days, some land owner said, "build her here." It was put there and that was that."
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Boardman No. 4, aka Ehrhardt school, District No. 4, aka Swan Creek school - The 1886 Warner-Foote plat shows this school located in Section 29. A newspaper article about county schools printed in The Clayton County Register, February 18, 1954 gives the following information about this school: "...research through deed and abstract records of the county yields the [following ] information ... "Boardman No. 4 is on the William Ehrhardt farm, along the Volga road and was conveyed by John Ehrhardt Jr. on March 17, 1899."
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Boardman No. 5, French Hollow school, District No. 5, aka Kelleher school, aka Smith School - The 1886 Warner-Foote plat shows the school in Section 34. A newspaper article about county schools printed in The Clayton County Register, February 18, 1954 gives the following information about this school: "...research through deed and abstract records of the county yields the [following ] information ... Boardman No. 5, known as the Kelleher school, stands on the Smith hill south of Elkader along highway 13. John Kelleher deeded it to the district on Nov. 1, 1879."
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Steen / Stence school, District No. 2, later extra-District No. 5 - no other information found
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Willmes school, District No. 6 - The 1886 Warner-Foote plat shows this school located in Section 3. A newspaper article about county schools printed in The Clayton County Register, February 18, 1954 gives the following information about this school: "...research through deed and abstract records of the county yields the [following ] information ... Boardman No. 6, known as the Willmes school, is in section 3. On-half acre in size, it was deeded to the district by George Baker on January 5, 1873."
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Boardman School No. 7, aka Cassidy school, District No. 7, aka Cheesman school - The 1886 Warner-Foote plat shows this school located in Section 7. A newspaper article about county schools printed in The Clayton County Register, February 18, 1954 gives the following information about this school: "...research through deed and abstract records of the county yields the [following ] information ... Boardman No. 7 lies in section 7, on the Ambrose Whittle farm. This one acre tract was conveyed by Bernard Crowley on July 11, 1878."
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