Around that time, the one- and two-room schools in Delaware County began to consolidate under a process initiated by County Superintendent of Schools Charles Van Matre. The extant Center schoolhouse seems to have been built in 1900 (Delaware, 2021). The teacher of the District 4 schoolhouse in 1881 was John R. Neither of those buildings stand today, but the districts were realigned around 1880. Union Township’s District 4 was a latecomer, since as of 1874 the closest schoolhouses were at the original District 8 on Joseph Kirkwood’s land at the southeast corner of West County Road 1000-N and District 3, and the Sniff school at the southwest corner of Center Pike and West County Road 1200-N (Kingman, 1874). In 1882, William Cox granted a portion of his land at the corner of Center and Eaton-Wheeling Pike to the Union School Township for the construction of a school (Delaware, 1882). Union Township was divided into early school districts in 1837 (Helm, 1881), fifteen years before a new Indiana constitution established funding for a system of free, common schools (Natali, 2007). Tracking down the remaining schoolhouses of East-Central Indiana Menu

Union township school district