District No. 36, Newport

Part of Washington County Schools of the Past

Photo of old Newport School house ca. 1908-09. Teacher was Miss Emma Glaser. Back Row, left to right: Dana McDonald, Alice Berfeldt, Leon Woods, Grace Chapelle, Clayton Smith, Marjarie Rode. Front Row, left to right: Hester Pinter, Florence Schabaker, Lyle Roberts, Margaret Berfeldt, Cecil Wygant, Helen Rode, Carinne Simmons

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District No. 36, Newport
District formed	1860
Years schools built	1888, 1890
General location	Newport
Modern address	Located in Newport Township.
District boundaries	Original district consisted of the northern half of Newport: a strip of land three miles long and a mile and a half wide along the Mississippi River.
Disposition	Now razed.
Notes	A new school was built in 1890. In 1898, enrollment at the school was 170 students. *The building constructed in 1890 had 9 rooms and cost $23,000 to build.
Memories:	"The population had increased so fast in the south end of the district that another schoolhouse was needed; but owing to the rivalry exisiting between the old town and the new, the school board saw the necessity of building two schoolhouses, instead of one." -Stillwater Gazette, Dec. 1898.

Known Teachers:

1890-1: Julia Sauntry, Mary Cowell, Marian Sloan, Mrs. Stone
1891-2: M. Ruby, Julia Sauntry, Mary Cowell, Marian Sloan, Mrs. Stone
1898-9: Isabella Bailey, Mary Cowell, Della Miller, Harriet Schofield
1908-9: Emma Glaser

Other teachers: (before 1898): Kate Black, Mabel Gray, J.M. Selover, Tillie Schleuter, Katie Shure, Lillie Shure, Flora Babcock, Elsie Whiting, Etta Butterfield, Mattie Elliot, Bessie Atwater, Helen Whitman, Augustus Vaux, George Butler, Jas. Carr, A.W. Uhl, John Galbraith, W.M. Mossel

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