Boston School

[W. Gray]

This photo in quality or expanse did not turn out as well as I would have liked.




Boston School photo from the Coffeyville Journal, January 20, 1974.

The Journal acknowledges the photo was loaned to them by Lee Bailey (1895-1988), the Moline photo guy. There was no date related to the photo but the Journal said, "group photo may be the only one remaining of old Boston, showing a group of school children and little else in front of the school."

Bailey came into some old photos of the area early in his career and loaned them to the newspaper for print with an in-house newspaper story titled "Battle for the Howard County Seat."

As the newspaper stated, publication of this story and the photo on January 20, 1874, was significant as the date was exactly 100 years from the date of the raid on Elk Falls.

I was in Lee Bailey's Moline house a couple times but darned if I can remember where it was.

A letter writer to the Longton Weekly Ledger, May 31, 1873, says that the school cost $2,500 to build. Another source gave a lesser amount.

The school was built by two Johnson brothers from Oak Valley who had a sawmill. One of the brothers, John, founded Oak Valley.

[upoladeb]

does anyone know if the rock house on the east side of oak valley is some of the mill stuff?