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Peoria County’s One-Room School Archive
A township-by-township archive of Peoria County schoolhouses, with histories, photographs, and a searchable school finder.
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- Peoria County history and schoolhouse researchers
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- The archive pairs John Hayes's 1930s histories with Grassel photographs and organizes entries across 19 townships.
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The homepage explains the archive's geographic organizing principle: Illinois townships were surveyed in six-mile squares, and rural school districts were laid out within them. Individual township entries name schools and preserve local details, including a school nicknamed “the Seven By Nine” and a building now at the Princeville Heritage Museum. The page also points readers to background reading and an account of Ernest Grassel's role in preserving Peoria history.
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