Name/Title
Photograph, Mill Street School, Springfield, circa 1888Entry/Object ID
2017.003.326Description
Photograph, Mill Street School, Springfield, circa 1888
Springfield school about 1888.
1. Edwin Briggs, 2. Carl Churchill, 3. Oscar Heminway, 4. Henry Holcomb, 5. Lesley Ustick, 6. Edd Armstrong, 7. Chandos McPherson, 8. Jim Wyent, 9. Charley Mulligan, 10. -, 11. George Canpbell, 12. -, 13. Anna Benjiman, 14. Carrie Burton, 15. Cara Holcomb (teacher), 16. -, 18. Mirttie Churchill, 19. Rosie Bowerman, 20. Hattie Stewart, 21. Addie McGaffey, 22. Maude McGaffey, 23. Fanny Burton, 24. Eithie Williams, 25. Effie Smitson, 26. Alice Spencer, 27. Dessie Boller, 28. Cinyhea Neat, 29. Bertha Walker, 30. Bessie Wilmot, 31. Jennie Smitson, 32. Ethel Burton, 33. Lulu Poil, 34. Ollie Churchill, 35. Ethel Stewart, 36. Hattie Benjaman, 37. Ollie Burton, 38. Abbie Bowerman, 39. Nettie Boller, 40. Etta Smitson, 41. Minie Anders, 42. Abbie Bowerman, 43. Jim Stewart, 44. Ernest Campbell, 45. Herbert Walker, 46. Edd Poil, 47. Joy Ustick, 48. Harry Benjiman, 49. George Neete, 50. - Neete (sister), 51. Fred Walker, 52. Tom Bowman, 53. Claud McGaffey, 54. Ancil Heminway, 55. Willie Smitson, 56. Wilie Boller, 57. John Graham, 58. Willie Milliorn, 59. Seth McPherson, 60. Gurney Bowerman, 61. Spencer, 62. -, 63. Walter McPherson, 64. Lonnie Anders.
Label reads: "First Mill Street School. This picture of the first school to have been erected on the Mill Street site was given to me by Mr. Herbert E. Walker son of the first mayor of Springfield. The date is about 1888. The building faced D Street with the walk on the left extending out to Mill Street. There were three rooms in this school: the front room for the older students and the backroom for the younger. A cloak room was on the left, slates were used on which to write. There were three rows of wooden seats, a room had a capacity of approximately 32 boys and girls. The wooden fence separated the boys from the girls at play time. There were no grades in the school. The teacher asked the students how far they had gone in their books and that was their placement test. A fifth reader would be about the highest.
When the school enrollment outgrew this building, the school was cut in half (from left to right) and made into two houses which were occupied for many years until the Junior High playground was enlarged. These houses stood on D Street between Mill and 2nd.
There are a few of the former pupils of this school still living."
Inscription on back: "First Springfield School to be constructed on Mill Street. Date 1888. It was later cut in two parts and moved east on D Street and used as two homes. The building faced D Street with the walk on the left extending out to Mill Street. There were three rooms in this school. The front room for the older students and the back room for the younger. A cloak room was on the left. Slates were used. There were 3 rows of wooden seats, a room had a capacity of approximately 32 boys and girls. The wooden fence separated the boys from the girls at playtime. There were no grades in the school. The teacher asked the students how far they had gone in their books and that was their placement test. A 5th reader would be about the highest."Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Walker, HerbertSubject Place
City
SpringfieldCounty
Lane CountyState/Province
OregonCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaCollection
Crystal B. Fogle Collection, Paula Guthrie-Scott