When Carter County was organized the 16th section of each township was set aside for schools, and when sold the interest on the money raised would go toward the maintenance of public schools, also known as Common Schools as they were regarded as being for the “common” people who could not afford to patronize one of the private schools.
Government Organization Editors frequently monitor and verify these resources on a routine basis. Dr. Gene Oakley, “A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition” pg 3, 6. Although there were more schools and teachers than in 1903, there were fewer students. The Carter County Land Records Search (Oklahoma) links below open in a new window and take you to third party websites that provide access to Carter County public records. At the second meeting of the Carter County court (July 4, 1859) N. H. Tucker was appointed commissioner of the common schools. In 1910 the lumber boom ended when the Grandin mill whistle blew for the last time. Gene Oakley, "A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition" 2007, pg 2West Carter County Genealogical Society, "History & Families of Carter County Missouri" (2006) Pages 8,10"Dr. Gene Oakley "A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition" 2007 pages 26-34 Their first winter was one of suffering, and disease killed many of them. Built early 1930s. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.20 males. However that same year news was also received that a new state highway would be routed through Carter County, passing through the town of Grandin.In 1910, J. This was due in large part to the departure of the big sawmills as the timber boom in Carter County came to an end. From about 1900 to 1910 there had been a high school at Grandin, but by 1913 there were no high schools in Carter County. The total expenses for the schools that year were $4,374.55. Carter County Land Records Search Links. When the Missouri legislature created Carter County on March 10, 1859, it named the county after Zimri A. Carter.Zimri A. Carter (1794–1870), the man for whom Carter County was named, was born in South Carolina. Teachers were paid by charging a monthly tuition, generally a dollar a month, which they were responsible for collecting. Today there are two public school districts in Carter County, Van Buren R-1 School district, and the East Carter County R-11 School district at Ellsinore.Carter County, like many rural counties, is a conservative county and often leans Republican in presidential elections. Yet by 1914 there were four high schools in the county. In 1938 George O White was made State Forester and following in the footsteps of Paul Dunn he took a truck equipped with a movie projector, screen and generator and showed forestry movies throughout the Ozark hill county. The curriculum was very basic as generally the teachers themselves had little in the way of education. Our schoolhouses are of a very inferior class, supplied with the rudest benches for seats, and destitute of blackboards or apparatus of any kind. (2007)Dr. Gene Oakley, "A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition" pages 18-28 (2007)Eunice Pennington, "The History of Carter County" page 27 (1959)Dr. Gene Oakley, "A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition" pages 128-136 (2007)West Carter County Genealogical Society, "History & Families of Carter County Missouri" pages 16-17 (2006)West Carter County Genealogical Society, “History & Families of Carter County Missouri” Pages 8-10 (2006)Dr. Gene Oakley, "A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition" 2007, pg 1Dr. Their graveyard is located in a little field at the mouth of Water Hollow about one and a half mile below Van Buren on the banks of the Current River.The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company moved into Carter County in 1887 and made it for many years the primary lumber production center of Missouri.
Maercus L. Giles received a certificate to teach a public school which was probably located somewhere on upper Big Brushy Creek. And for 12 years these movies were shown wherever an audience was to be found, indoors and outdoors, in schools and churches and stores. In 1807, at the age of 13, he came to Missouri with his parents. Many of the houses in which schools are taught are unoccupied cabins, which have been erected and used for temporary dwellings, until the owner could furnish more comfortable apartments for his family. Coleman.On August 12, 1862, the 24th Missouri Infantry (Union) under the command of Colonel In September 1862 Rebel forces under the command of Colonel David C. Boone, who had been in Southeast Missouri recruiting troops for the Confederacy, was driven from Reynolds County into Carter County by elements of the By far, most of the death and destruction in Carter County did not come at the hand of either Union or Confederate troops, but from bands of outlaws known as One local history describes a short lived community of freed slaves that arose about two miles south of Van Buren after the Civil War. UPDATE: The Carter County Board of Education approved a plan for students enrolled in the in-person learning pathway to return to school. Logo.
In 1900 the timber boom in Carter County was in full stride. And Daniel W. Hoskins received a certificate to teach a public school that was located on Carter Creek east of Van Buren. The median age was 39 years. The population of the county continued to drop throughout the 1920s and 1930s simply because there were very few jobs to be had. Like the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company before it, the Mid-Continent Iron Company built its own railroad system to transport the wood needed to fire the With the end of World War I there was no longer any demand for the products the company was producing and so in 1921 the Mid-Continent Iron Company closed.