Spring Creek School
by Vena Bob Le Sueur Gates

from A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 
edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission 
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Spring Creek School, District #28, started around 1883.  Charles E. Brown is the first known teacher in 1898.  No other records exist on this school until 1912, when Mrs. S. A. Lowrie and Miss Ethel Evans taught, with the trustees being W. K. Payne, C. R. Johnson and Ed Hintner.

In 1913, the teacher was I. J. Kelley (who took part of the 1910 census); trustees, J. A. Norris, C. R. McNeil and J. W. Stokes.  In 1914, the teacher and trustees were the same, with an enrollment of 26.

In 1921, the children of the families of J. W. Stokes, A. B. Wilson and J. L. Richardson were allowed to transfer to Talpa, with the balance of Spring Creek School consolidating with Pleasant Valley (Possum Trot).  This consolidation caused a new school to be built, known as New Pleasant Valley (New Possum Trot); although at least one map calls this new school Spring Creek (New Possum Trot).


Below are two early Spring Creek School group pictures copied for Ray Norris in 1988.




 
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