Sunday, November 13, 2016

John Wood School ca. 1962

The John Wood School looks freshly built in this aerial view:

2016-11-13. John Wood
(Click on images to enlarge)
Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


The image is not otherwise dated.

Here is the same image with a couple of features marked.

2016-11-13. John Wood - marked

The old Foreman house is still standing, though its outbuildings (aside from the pump house) are gone. I have marked the location of the old wooden Ainsworth school according to what I have been told. I can't clearly see it in those trees, though I do see something that looks like a small building.

The Triebess house lies just outside the left border of the photo. That house was built in 1849 according to the county records. If that date is correct, we may also call it the old Horace Marble house (per the 1874 Plat Map) and maybe even the old Booth house, since members of the Booth family owned that land in 1848 and 1850, per Early Land Sales, Lake County.

The white house along the left border was built in 1939 according to county records, and I haven't yet found out yet who built it.

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