Red Swamp School

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About
Name
  • Red Swamp School
Educational Services
  • Elementary and Secondary Schools
Trading names
  • Number Three School
Services
  • Public School
Facts
Founded
  • Date unknown
    Wooster
Dissolved
  • 1919
Related
Parent organizations
Key Persons
Location

    Quick Facts

    • - One room school located one mile east of Lattasburg on Matty Road. Immediately adjoining this property is Red Swamp (Indian name). Many arrowheads have been found in the field adjoining Red Swamp. [1]
    • 1919 - Closed
    • 1946 - Sale of old schoolhouse - Stood on the northeast corner of the Emma Myers property which was sold to Paul and Lucille Bridenstine.[2]
    • #3 School - Red Swamp School - Number Three School, a frame building was moved by James Ickes after closing in 1919 from one mile east of Lattasburg on Matty Road to his farm further east on the same road. Repurposed as a farm building.[3]

    Milo Bridenstine's father, Paul attended Red Swamp School. The schoolhouse was moved one mile east and now stands on the Jim Miley property on Matty Road. [4]

    1. Faye T. Bridenstine. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Compiled and edited by members of The Wayne County History Book Committee, 1987. p. 80.
    2. Faye T. Bridenstine. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Compiled and edited by members of The Wayne County History Book Committee, 1987. p. 80.
    3. Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County, 1897. material collected at West Salem Elementary School for a project about Northwestern Local School District schools, and from 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. 73.
    4. Faye T. Bridenstine. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Compiled and edited by members of The Wayne County History Book Committee, 1987. p. 80.