{"id":13792,"date":"2022-01-14T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2022-01-14T00:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:26:59","slug":"old-schools-in-miles-preston-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/old-schools-in-miles-preston-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Old schools in Miles, Preston gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13793\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/prestonschool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/prestonschool.jpg 440w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/prestonschool-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13794\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/milesschooltop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/milesschooltop.jpg 310w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/milesschooltop-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 14, 2011:<\/strong> The 192X Preston school \u2014 exact year unknown because the cornerstone is cut off by the 1950 building to its right \u2014 and the capstone for Miles school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Easton Valley school district, the easternmost in Iowa, has been busy with construction in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the 2018-19 school year, the three-story Miles school was closed and elementary students temporarily moved to Preston, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maqnews.com\/news\/local\/easton-valley-elementary-moves-into-preston\/article_12e56fc6-20c6-11e9-9e31-7b0b5aa2beae.html\">reported the <em>Maquoketa Sentinel-Press<\/em><\/a>. Based on aerial photos, <em>only<\/em> the oldest part of the complex was torn down and the rest preserved for a new school to be built in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>A clip from the <em>Preston Times<\/em> website, link unavailable, says demolition of the original Preston school took place in April 2021 &#8220;after a year of no use and taking up a huge amount of space.&#8221; The site is now a parking lot for Easton Valley High School across the street.<\/p>\n<p>I photographed the exteriors of both schools in both 2011 and 2018 before they slipped into history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 14, 2011: The 192X Preston school \u2014 exact year unknown because the cornerstone is cut off by the 1950 building to its right \u2014 and the capstone for Miles school. The Easton Valley school district, the easternmost in Iowa, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/old-schools-in-miles-preston-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13795,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/13795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}