11, 1918. The following September, 30 students were enrolled at the high school level. The Spanish Flu was a worldwide pandemic from 1918-1919 and the Ohio State Board of Health temporarily closed all schools on Oct. World War I was raging in Europe and the students did their part to support stateside efforts by selling thrift stamps. Three teachers, including the principal, instructed the first 42 high school students. The Class of 1918 (Marie Davy, Edna Nelp, Edith Spangler, Esther O’Harra, Gladys McDaniel, Blanche Miller and Franklin Wood) hoped to start their senior year in the new building, but it was not completed in time and they remained at Lockbourne for half of the school year. The electrified interurban railway was a convenient method to transport students from Obetz and Lockbourne to the new high school, which was named after a nearby Scioto Valley Interurban Power Station located in Reese and named for the Miner family.Ĭonstruction on the school began in 1916. The Rohr Road site abutted tracks owned by the Chesapeake and Hocking Railroad (later the Chesapeake and Ohio) and the Scioto Valley Traction Company (an interurban system). When the school in Lockbourne became too crowded, around 1915, the board of education decided to construct a larger facility near the center of the township and four acres of land were purchased from Clara Hann for the building.
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