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Here is what I gathered some years ago on Peters or Salem School, District number 9.
Salem was the name of the neighborhood in the southwest corner of the township. This
school is shown at the same location on both the 1866 and the 1878 maps: at the SW corner
of the intersection (from the north) of CR775E and 700S. the road has been relocated
slightly. Today CR 775 does not cross 700S directly. It intersects 700S from the north,
then a short distance west it turns south off of 700S to continue south. The school must
have stood about where a house stands today to the east of Wainwright Mmiddle School on
the south side of 700S. Then the road ran on the east side of the school; today it runs on
the west of the house on the same location. The road continued south as it does today to a
Methodist church, Salem church, located where 775 turns to cross Interstate 65.
There is a deed dated June 16, 1832, from Robert Elliott to school trustees for school
#9.
The school was also called Peters, the name of a family living in the area. On Sep 2,
1861, John Peters deeded land for the school to Sheffield School township.
Hooker, in his 1916 book on the Tippecanoe County Schools, shows this school on his map of
the schools in 1894. In 1911 the building was made into a two-roomed school by the
addition of the building from Elliott school. Salem shows on Hooker's map of the
schools in 1916 as a two-room consolidated school, grade only. It must have been one of
the last to close and send the pupils in to Dayton to the township school.
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