| Olive Branch High School | |
|---|---|
 The "little round" building which housed Olive Branch High School from 1914 to 1928. | |
| Address | |
 | |
9520 West National Road , , 45344 United States | |
| Coordinates | 39°54′46″N83°59′47″W / 39.912713°N 83.996505°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Established | 1880 |
| Closed | 1952 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Architect | Charles Insco Williams [1] |
Olive Branch High School was a public high school near New Carlisle, Ohio.
In 1873, a brick structure known as "No. 3" was built to house the Olive Branch School, for grades 4 through 8. [2]
In 1878, the Legislature of Ohio passed a law authorizing township Boards of Education to establish a school of higher grade than a common school. [2] A decision was quickly made to create Olive Branch High School, but due to lack of funds, the new school wasn't established until October 1880, when one room of the existing Olive Branch School was put into service for a high school class headed by teacher Robert H. Taylor. [2] [3] [4] Courses taught at the school included Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Science, and others. [2] The first class started with five students, but grew to seven by the time its members graduated from grade 11 in 1883. [2]
In 1884, the school became a four-year institution with the addition of a grade 12, so the pupils who graduated in 1883 came back for another year—with a new teacher, as Robert Taylor left after his third year—and graduated again with the class of 1884. [2] [4] That same year, a Superintendent position was created and filled by Mr. Taylor's brother, W.S. Taylor. [2]
In 1886, a second teacher was hired, but the faculty was reduced back down to one teacher the following year. [2] The building was also expanded around this time. [2]
By 1900, the Olive Branch School building was overcrowded and in disrepair. [1] Some of the repairs mandated by the State Inspector were completed that year, and the Bethel Township Board of Education spent the next six years discussing whether to continue repairs or to construct a new building. [1] Construction of a new building was approved in 1907, and bonds were issued to raise the $30,000 needed to build the new school. [1]
The new building was completed in 1908, and all the students were moved to it. [2] [3] [4] This structure, designed in the Craftsman style by architect Charles Insco Williams, was the first to be named Olive Branch High School, although it also still housed the lower grades of sub-district 3. [1] Known locally as the "little round school house", "little round building" or "little round O.B.", this building had a unique circular design with four classrooms that pointed inward to face a central cafeteria and gymnasium. [5] The building was destroyed when a boiler in the basement caught fire on November 10, 1913. [1] [2] [3] [4] Classes were held in a barn until a replacement building was finished in December 1914, at a cost of just under $15,000, for which $7,000 in bonds were issued earlier that year. [1] [2] Built on the same foundation, it was identical to the original building, but had doors added to each classroom so students could easily exit the building in case of fire. [3]
From 1910 to 1916, the school had two teachers. [2] In 1916, a third teacher was added in order to comply with a new state law requiring high schools to have three faculty in order to retain its standing as a 'first-grade' high school. [2] At the time, Olive Branch was one of only two rural schools in the state to retain its standing. [2]
A Smith–Hughes agriculture course was added in 1922. [2]
In 1928, a new, larger brick building was constructed to house Olive Branch High School on land adjacent to the "little round" school. [4] In 1952, Olive Branch High School closed and its grade 10–12 students enrolled in the newly completed Tecumseh High School, one hundred meters away. [6]
The brick building which last housed Olive Branch High School then became Olive Branch Junior High School [6] (grades 7 through 9), and in 1981 became Olive Branch Middle School (grades 6 through 8), before being demolished and replaced by Tecumseh Middle School in 2007.
Meanwhile, in the 1950s and early 1960s, the "little round" building was used for overflow, temporarily housing classes from Tecumseh High School. In 1963, the building was used as an overflow elementary school, and then for art classes. [6] In 1972, it ceased housing classes, and since then the well-maintained building has been used for storage. [3] [4] [5] The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2009 and was rededicated at a ceremony in January 2010. [4] [5] As of 2010, funds were being sought to restore the building as a museum and board office. [5] [6]
Clermont County, popularly called Clermont, is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 208,601. Ordinanced in 1800 as part of the Virginia Military District, Clermont is Ohio's eighth oldest county, the furthest county west in Appalachian Ohio, and the eleventh oldest county of the former Northwest Territory. Clermont County is part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is named from the French "clear hills or mountain." Its county seat is Batavia, while its largest city is Milford.
Bethel Township is one of the twelve townships of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 4,758 people in the township.
Theodore Roosevelt High School, often referred to as Kent Roosevelt (KRHS), is a public high school in Kent, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in Kent and the Kent City School District and serves students in grades 9–12 living in Kent, Franklin Township, Brady Lake, and Sugar Bush Knolls as well as a small portion of southern Streetsboro. As of the 2021–22 academic year, enrollment was 1,267 students with 73 teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 17:1. Recognition for academic performance over the years has come from the United States Department of Education, Ohio Department of Education, and U.S. News & World Report.
Pinelands Regional School District is a regional school district in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students from Eagleswood Township, Little Egg Harbor Township and Tuckerton Borough along with the Burlington County municipality of Bass River Township.
Brick Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Brick Township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as a part of the Brick Public Schools. The school opened in 1980 as the second of two secondary schools in the district, the other being Brick Township High School.
Bethel Park High School, also called BPHS, is a four-year, comprehensive high school located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, with an enrollment of 1,391 students in grades 9–12 for the 2018–2019 school year. Its curriculum includes ten Advanced Placement Program courses, 14 honors courses, and four foreign language programs. Its mascot is the Black Hawk.
Brick Township High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Brick Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Brick Public Schools. The school is one of two secondary schools in the district, the other being Brick Memorial High School.
Tecumseh High School is a public high school for students in grades 9-12 located in the city of Tecumseh, Michigan. The school services an area of roughly 80 square miles (210 km2) and includes the city of Tecumseh and parts of the Townships of Adrian, Clinton, Franklin, Macon, Raisin, Ridgeway, and Tecumseh. Tecumseh schools are essentially rural and seen as a middle class school system. For the 2001 school year, the Tecumseh Public School system opened the doors to a new $33 million high school. The University of Michigan, University of Toledo, Eastern Michigan University, Adrian College, Siena Heights University, Washtenaw Community College, Monroe Community College and Cleary College are all within a 35-mile (56 km) radius of the community. Jackson College a strong partner with the Tecumseh School District, offers classes both in Tecumseh and neighboring Adrian".
Tecumseh High School is a public high school near New Carlisle, Ohio. The school and district are named in honor of Tecumseh, a chief of the Shawnee people who lived in the general area between approximately 1768 and 1813.
Milford High School is a college preparatory, public high school in Milford, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Milford Exempted Village School District (MEVSD), the largest building of the district's eight school buildings, and a larger high school in Clermont County, Ohio. The high school and the Milford Exempted Village School District serve the City of Milford and parts of Miami Township and Union Township. Milford is the westernmost high school in Appalachian Ohio.
Tinora High School is a public high school near Defiance, Ohio, USA. It is the only high school in the Northeastern Local Schools district, whose nickname is the Tinora Rams, taken from the team mascot. The district is a member of the Green Meadows Conference. Tinora has rivalries with schools such as Fairview, Ayersville, & Wayne Trace. It first opened in 1965.
Benjamin Garver Lamme was an American electrical engineer and chief engineer at Westinghouse, where he was responsible for the design of electrical power machines. Lamme created an efficient induction motor from Nikola Tesla's patents and went on to design the giant Niagara Falls generators and motors and the power plant of the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New York City.
Little Miami Schools is a local school district in southern Warren County, Ohio, United States, situated mostly in Hamilton Township, Ohio. The district covers 98 square miles (250 km2) of land, including the villages of Morrow, Butlerville, and Maineville, Hamilton Township, and other townships.
The Tecumseh Local School District is a school district in western Clark County, Ohio. It consists of one Middle School, one High School and three Elementary Schools.
The New Albany-Plain Local School District is located in and around New Albany, Ohio in central Ohio, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The school district covers an area of 26 square miles (67 km2), all located in the northeast corner of Franklin County, Ohio. The district features eight buildings serving grades K-12 all on one centrally-located campus. The schools are connected by tree-lined walkways, and are surrounded by an 80-acre (320,000 m2) nature preserve.
Kent State University School ("KSUS") was a laboratory school located in Kent, Ohio, United States, on the campus of Kent State University. The school included grades K–12 and was divided into elementary, junior high/middle, and high school levels with the high school known as Kent State University High School or Kent State High School. Originally developed as a teacher training school, it later evolved into a selective laboratory school connected with the Kent State University College of Education. It was initially housed at Merrill Hall when it opened in 1913 before moving into Kent Hall in 1916. In 1926 it relocated to the William A. Cluff Teacher Training Building, now known as Franklin Hall. The school was moved to a new building at the corner of Morris Road and East Summit Street in 1956. This building is today known as the Michael Schwartz Center and houses several student services and administrative offices. The university closed the school in phases, starting with the high school portion in 1972. The junior high school was closed in 1978, and the elementary school closed in 1982.
Lorain High School is part of Lorain City School District in Lorain, Ohio and was founded in 1876, beginning as a two-year high school course. In 1879, the first graduating class consisted of three members. By 1883, the high school curriculum was expanded to three years and in 1889, it was expanded to four years.
Bertha Lamme Feicht was an American engineer. In 1893, she became the first woman to receive a degree in engineering from the Ohio State University. She is considered to be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering.
The history of the University of Texas at Arlington began with the foundation of Arlington College in 1895, which was the first of a series of private schools to exist on the site of the present university. It consisted of first through tenth grades and enrolled between 75 and 150 students on a campus that consisted initially of only a two-story schoolhouse. It was created largely due to the underfunded and generally inadequate public schools in the city. Arlington College closed in July 1902, after Arlington voters passed a proposition to create an independent school district.
