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1871 | Gum Prairie, First Norris City Grade School |
UNK. | 1908 Little Red School House |
1909 | 1926 Single Story Brick Building |
1926 | 1948 Norris City High School, District 181 |
1949 | 1953 Norris City Community Unit Number 3 High School |
1953 | 1985 Norris City-Omaha (NCO) Community Unit Number 3 High School |
1985 | Present Norris City-Omaha-Enfield (NCOE) Community Unit Number 3 High School |
1871 | First grade school built in Norris City was called “Gum Prairie School” in School District 6, located west of the center of Section 28 in Indian Creek Township and west of current high school on land of W. A. Johnson, GPS 37.9736,88.33151 |
UNK | First Grade School in city limits on south side of Third Street between Division and Forrest Streets replacing Gum Prairie.1 |
UNK | "Little Red School House" built north of the Grade School that was built around 1926, where the merry-go-round was. It was torn down around 1908.7 |
Date | Event |
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1901 | Keller & Fuller Map shows school building at Third and Powell Streets.2 |
1909 | Norris City School District No. 28, School building bonds issued, assessed valuation at $493,435.3 |
1926 | Norris City Township High School District 181 established.4 |
1934 | Norris City School District No. 181 requested 17,000 loan received $6,000 for high school.5 |
1948 | Bonds issued and new high school construction started.4 |
1949 | Norris City Community Unit School District Number 3 created from merger of 19 rural one-room schools with Norris City School System. Eighth through twelfth grades held at new high school building. First through seventh grades housed at Old Grade School Building.4 |
1950 | A low cost, high capacity, gym designed by Ralph Legeman of Evansville, IN was completed. The playing floor and nine rows of seating were below ground. Spectators entered the building at the top bleacher. The angled roof was supported by steel trusses bent at an angle, at Norris City approximately 30 degrees.5 |
1953-54 | Omaha High School consolidated into Norris City-Omaha (NCO) Community Unit Number 3 High School.4 |
1985-86 | Norris City-Omaha-Enfiled (NCOE) Community Unit Number 3 High School created when Enfield High School merged with NCO. District contains 210 square miles from White, Gallatin, and Hamilton Counties.4 |
1 - Mark Wheeler provided article, no date. 2 - White County, Illinois, Published by Keller & Fuller in 1901 3 - The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, v. 89, Pt. 2, Oct-Dec. 1909 4 - Edward Oliver, Villager’s Voice, May 25, 2016 5 - 1934 Report of Public Works Administration 6 - Remember Roberts Stadium http://remember robertsstadium.blogspot.com/ 2011/05/legend-of- ralph-legeman.html 7 - Edward Oliver Email |
Norris City Loyalty |
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Here’s to the Cardinal and the white, |
Here’s to our honor and our might, |
Here’s to our love of honesty |
And my our courage always be. |
Here’s to our Alma mater brave, |
And May our colors always wave. |
To name a victory for Norris City, |
Here’s to the Cardinal and the white. |
Norris City School 1931
1931 Cardinal
Norris City's New High School with Gym 1935
General Contractors
D. E. Parker, Carmi
David Sloss, St. Louis
1935 Cardinal
Norris City's New High School North Side
1935 Cardinal
Norris City's New High School South East Side
1935 Cardinal
Norris City School 1946
1946 Cardinal
Norris City School 1947
1947 Cardinal
Legemen Drawing of New High School
1948 Cardinal
1949 Cardinal Yearbook
Edward Oliver, Villager’s Voice, May 25, 2016
New Norris City High School Features
1949 Cardinal
Remember Roberts Stadium
He Dreamed It Up on a Sleepless Night, Evansville Press, September 1, 1949
Public Sale of One Room School Houses
Norris City Library
Norris City High School West Hallway
1950 Cardinal
Norris City Grade School
1969 Cardinal
New Cafeteria Added by Gym
Norris City Grade School
1970 Cardinal
Norris City High School 1972
1972 Cardinal
1957 Cardinal
Norris City High School Gym Floor
Norris City High School Gym Floor
Former Norris City Grade School West Side, 2019
David Cantrell
Former Norris City Grade School North Side, 2019
David Cantrell
Former Norris City Grade School South Side, 2019
David Cantrell
Norris City Grade School Then and 2019
David Cantrell