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Beech Point School students pictured in Athens Township circa 1903

The school was located on Route 9 about 2 miles east of New Athens

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Susan Adams smiling for her column photo.

Beech Point School students posed for a photograph in Athens Township around 1903.

The school was located on Route 9 about 2 miles east of New Athens at the S-curve on the hill.

George Armstrong Custer reportedly taught there before attending West Point. The final teacher served at the school in 1938.

The photo is from the collection of the Harrison County Historical Society. Information is from a Harrison News-Herald article published July 8, 1976, and the book “Lest We Forget: Harrison County Early Schools.”

Group photo in front of a schoolhouse with students and teachers.
Front row, from left, are Ruth Cannon, Madge McCoy, Bessie Morgan, Leio Burdette, Clayton Dickerson, George Anderson, Herbert Dickerson, Ralph McCoy, Oria Burdette, Clyde “Pete” Dickerson, Ross Worley, Hugh Culbertson, Devney McCoy and Anna Wallace. Second row includes teacher Frank Simpson, Florence Culbertson, Mable Frater, Lena Dunlap, Etta Dickerson, Sherman Anderson, Hazel Worley, Gertrude Rogers, Mary Liggett, Pearl Albright, Alice Anderson, Clarence Culbertson, Cloyd McFadden, Bertha Cheeks, Willis Anderson, Vista Elliott and two unidentified students.
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