This is just the kind of thing I like to see when I’m looking into the “genealogy” of school districts, so I better give the Marshalltown Times-Republican some props for this two-story series.
Marshall County rural schools: A history (1) — how the current districts in the county came about.
Marshall County rural schools: A history (2) — the really little towns that had their own buildings. A former student at Van Cleve — a non-map dot halfway between Melbourne and Haverhill — was shocked to learn that Marshalltown did not have a girls’ basketball team.