Joseph McClurg built the first log school in Lower Town of old Linn Creek. Later a one-room frame school was built in Upper Town to replace the log school. The log school became a school for “colored children”. In 1893 there were about thirty-seven students in age from five to twenty years old. One year later the student attendance was seventy-two. A new two-story, concrete school was built on higher ground away from the flood area of the Osage River. The new school had a library of thirty-six books that were free to students and to others five cents weekly rent was expected. This photo looks back to the year of 1914.
Looking back at the first log school in Linn Creek
