July 6, 2011: Entrance to the Vincent school building in northeast Webster County. At the time the picture was taken, a sign outside said “Vincent Antique Galleries.”
The Eagle Grove school district closed the Vincent attendance center at the end of the 1980-81 school year. Parents appealed to the state to keep it open, but the higher per-pupil cost for the school and a decision by the Iowa Legislature to cut previously proposed education funding in half for 1981-82 made that futile.