Thursday, July 21, 2022

Jersey

 Or the area north of Fairfield, south of Roseburg, not far from Billingsville and a stone's throw from Dunlapsville. Bath Springs, generally. This is an additional entry to support some of the other school items on the blog that are pretty easily identified.

Jersey still exists. You can drive through there if you turn down old SR 101 just north of Causeway Road. Down toward the golf course. Bath Springs Cemetery is still there. It's relevant. Many of the original settlers to that part of what was once Franklin County had come from New Jersey. Cemetery records at Bath Springs bear that out. 

Two photos here: The older one is of the Jersey school. The newer one is of the older Jersey school. Briefly, the older building was the original school that served a dozen or so farm families in Harmony Township. At some point that old building was moved across the road and the brick school, or the older photo, was constructed. The older building is still there, the brick building isn't, demolished in the later part of the 20th century.

One-room schools were common until the 1910s in rural Indiana. 

There was also a church in that area too. Not much information on that. It was probably a Universalist church. Do your own research in Liberty if you like.

Jersey community had close connections to Fairfield in social matters. The Unlin Society, a communal club of sorts in the 1910s bound them together. Many from Jersey attended church functions in Fairfield. When SR 101 was built in the 1930s, Jersey was split geographically. No idea if that was controversial. Most likely somebody bitched. (Glen Klein provided the older photo.)






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