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The Derby High School and Grade School students in 1920 standing in front of the third Derby school building.

Front row: Geneva Gass, Fern Mohr, Elma Hopkins, Freda Alley, Olga Lauber, Mary Brunell, Dorothy Gass, Vara Spencer, Cecil Goeldner,…

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19A Derby High school Class 1925 Butch Ewing.jpg
From left to right:
Some of the names are misspelled and the corrected spelling is in parenthesis.

Fifth row (back row):
Murrell Ward '26; Murrell Mohr (Merle Mohr) '27; Everett Gass '26; Cecil Basset (Cecil Bassett) '27; Elgar Church '27;…

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691 Derby Post Office 1938 Museum.jpg
The Derby Post Office was located at 101 S. Baltimore on the corner of Baltimore and Washington. The building currently houses the VFW and was originally built in 1918 by Ed and George Klegg and Claude and Zoe Alley. One side housed the Derby Post…

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In March 1924, this red brick building opened as the third school at this site. It had 10 classrooms, study hall, small office, two modern lavatories and a gymnasium/auditorium. From 1924 to 1953, this was the only public school in town; high school…

14A Derby High School 1920s Butch Ewing.jpg
The school building was the first brick building in Derby and cost $15,000 to build. The new building only lasted six years before a fire gutted it in May 1923.

The previous building was torn down after a violent storm severely damaged it in…

84 School Building 3rd one 1920s Tony Gonzalez.jpg
The building was built in March of 1924 and served as elementary and high school through spring of 1952. Currently (2021) the Derby Historical Museum is housed in the building.

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A Derby School class in the 1890s outside the second schoolhouse for Derby, located at the current site of the Derby Historical Museum.

1396 School on the Hills slide 1890s Museum.jpg
The students of the "school on the hill" in the 1890s.
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