The LaSalle County Historical Society’s Education Committee, creating a book on the one-room schoolhouses of LaSalle County, is looking for help to complete the research needed for several townships.
The research is organized so each township has a person responsible for researching its school histories. The following townships need researchers for their schools: Allen, Eagle, Meriden, Osage, and Vermillion.
Project coordinator Deb Konya says researchers don’t have to live in, or have gone to schools in, townships they wish to research.
“If you have information pertaining to one-room schoolhouses in the county, such as artifacts, photos of teachers, students, or schools we would like to include them in our book. Items will be copied or photographed and will be returned in the same condition they were lent,” she said.
“We have a particular need for any information about the Revere School at the turn of the nineteenth century, under the tutelage of T. J. Hopkins,” Konya added.
The Education Committee recently welcomed its newest members to the team. They are: Joe Gurski, Dayton Twp.; Paul Muskoff, Deer Park Twp.; Maureen Corrigan, Earl Twp.; Diane Latz Trombaugh, Mendota Twp.; Chaya Spears, Utica Twp., and Doris Wolfe, Richland Twp.
Members interested in researching schools in the five listed townships may contact the museum at 815-667-4861.
