![]() In 1930 a levy passed to build a new Magnolia School for $90,000 on Harrison Street. The 1896 brick schoolhouse is still standing and is presently used as Magnolia’s Village Hall, with Council Chambers and Police Headquarters downstairs and Boy Scout meeting rooms upstairs. In 1931 the additional building was moved down Harrison Street to become the Grange Hall. If students wanted to continue their education, they traveled to other schools, such as McKinley High School in Canton. Grades one and two met downstairs, grades three through six met in the new building in the parking lot, and three years of high school met upstairs. In 1896 the frame building was moved to East Carrollton Street, and a four-room brick building was built in its place (see photo below).īecause of overcrowding in 1922, a separate building of two rooms was added on the northwest corner of the school grounds. Elson, owner of the Magnolia Flouring Mill. In 1869 a new frame building was built on the site of the present-day Magnolia Village Hall on North Main Street. ![]() In 1868 these two schools combined to form the Magnolia Special School District. Carroll County students attended a school south of Magnolia. In 1834 a log school was built for $40 east of Trinity Lutheran Church on Harrison Street, attended by Stark County students. Rose Township also had a two-room high school 4 ½ miles outside Magnolia. In early years, Magnolia education was provided in scattered small schools, such as Knotts School, the Eight-Cornered Schoolhouse, and nine one-room elementary Rose Township schools, including Pleasant Vale, Walnut Grove, Woods View, Morges, Beggars Run, Lindentree, and others. Provided by the Magnolia Area Historical Society ![]()
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