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Wooster,Ohio
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- 7509 W. Smithville Western Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
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Primary source 1920-1951. [1]
- 1920 - (Spring/Summer) G. U. Baumgardner, Wayne County School Superintendent asked parents of six students to see if they would send their children to a local high school if one were started. All agreed to send their kids to the local school
- 1920 - Fall, Six freshmen students began going to Congress High School with one teacher Anna Griffith Swinehart. They held school in a one room building known as the Chester Township House. No indoor plumbing, with drinking water carried from a nearby house and stored in a porcelain cooler. Students walked, drove horse and buggy, or rode horseback to get to school. Heated by an old wood burning pot belly stove protected by a sheet iron shield. Lumber for the stove was piled outside the building. Student would form a line and pass the wood from one to the other. The school had kerosene lights for lighting. Sports consisted of playing a type of football with a round ball, boxing, and boxing hats, foot racing, leap frog and playing checkers.
- 1921 - A new fall class of 16 students met at the same one room schoolhouse with only one teacher.
- 1922 - By early Spring work begun on a new school building which was Chester High School. Students were watching the construction out the windows and it became necessary for the teacher to paste paper over the lower part of the windows in order to maintain attention to coursework.
- 1922 - The third class of 17 students began in the Fall and began meeting in the newly constructed school building with modern plumbing and electric lights. Anna Walter was also hired as a teacher. Students still had to find their own transportation to and from school.
- 1923 - The fourth class began and Leo Welty became superintendent which he held office for 30 years. New teacher joined during this time: Mrs. George, John Rutt, manual training teacher, Louis Griffith who graduated from a school in Indiana.
- 1936 - A new gymnasium auditorium was added to the west side of the original Chester building.
- 1941 - A new building was added to the east of the original building and all the Chester Township Schools one room schools were closed and student sin grades 1-8 were bused to the new school building.
- 1951 - Congress High School continued until the fall of 1951. At that time, the three high school districts of Chester Local School District, Congress Local School District, and the West Salem Local School District consolidated into the Northwestern Local School District.
- 1951 - The building became strictly Chester Elementary School for grades 1-6/
- ↑ Lucille Tegtmeier & submitted by Betty K. Schuler. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Compiled and edited by members of The Wayne County History Book Committee, 1987. p. 72-73.