1906 – Jefferson School

An eight-room brick building was constructed on Jefferson Street to bring together kids attending other schools in the vicinity under the same roof.  Jefferson School acted as the first high school from 1911-1916.  Earlier, children in the immediate area were served by a three-room school that opened doors in 1904. A historic map of the Upper Ohio River and Towns shows that a school existed in the vicinity of today’s Follansbee as early as 1877.

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Jefferson School  circa 1918; annex, left, built in 1920 for overflow.   Photo courtesy of James Piccirillo