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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…

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This is the second school building for Derby but the first one built on the current site of the Derby Historical Museum. The two story wood frame structure cost $2,600 when it was built in 1886 and was later destroyed by a tornado or wind storm in…

261 Derby School Class Feb 1899 Genev Reed.jpg
A glimpse inside the Derby school on Feb. 24, 1899. The teacher was J. W. Swaney. If you look close at the chalkboard, the class was learning about the sense of smell.

This school building was destroyed in in 1903 by a tornado.

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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.

53170035 - 1402 Evangelical Church unknown slide Aug 1969 Museum.jpg
Artist rendering of the Evangelical Church in the school on Georgie (from a slide dated August 1969)

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