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West Harmony Street School

November 2, 2026

West Harmony Street School

West Harmony School
The school board meeting minutes on August 4, 1927 mention land and a home next to the school purchased for school purposes for $1100 from Jacob Hunt.  It is unknown if this was for West Harmony Street School or not.  In any event, West Harmony Street was built in 1927. It was a six classroom, stucco structure about three blocks to the west of Harmony Street School that had 240 white students originally for grades 1-4. In 1930 there were 6 teachers with one class for each grade 1- 6.   In 1936 there were 241 students and six teachers for grades 1-5.  Each grade had one class with the exception of 4th grade which had two classes.  The school was still open in 1969 and at some point, became offices for the Regional School District.  It is unknown when the school closed, but it was demolished in 2002.

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