All Information was gathered from the book
Fascinating History of the City of Campbell
by Ms. Florence Galida
Names of all Public Schools from the beginning of time:
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Stop
7 School (Mcvey School and Seventh Street School)-1903
Twelfth Street School-1905
Fairview School-1911
Gordon School-1913
Reed Middle School-1917
McCartney School-1919
Penhale Primary School-1920
Campbell Memorial High
School-1925
Stop
7 School
(Mcvey School and Seventh St. School)
Stop 7 School was built between 1903 and 1905 by the Coitsville Township Board of Education. Stop 7 School started with two class rooms for the first and second graders. It later expanded and accommodated eighty-five students of all grade levels. It was used to educate those children along Warhurst Road and Broad Street(Wilson Avenue). Most of the students were from immigrant families. There was usually one teacher in charge when the classes were smaller. Many primary students started at Stop 7 School and then transferred to Fairview for higher grade levels. No more classes were held at Stop 7 School after 1916.
Stop 7 School
is still intact although it has changed little from its original appearance. It is
now a privately owned dwelling on the corner of Mcvey Street and Seventh Street.
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Twelfth Street School was built on Twelfth Street and Gordon Avenue around 1905, to accommodate the children of the growing neighborhood. At the time of its construction it was another country schoolhouse. It came to manage up to four classrooms as the population of Campbell increased.
Later Twelfth Street School was used at various times for storage of playground equipment, as an English night school controlled by the P& L.E. Y.M.C.A.,and for various boy's bands to practice. In the summer months it was used for church services by the Hungarian Protestant Church.
The Italian
Catholic Society purchased the building in 1933 and renovated it four years later into the
first St. Lucy's Church. St. Lucy's used the building until 1952 when they moved
into their new church at the coroner of Twelfth Street and Tenny Avenue. In 1975 the
building was completely renovated and was operated as the Grecian Lounge, a night
club.
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The first school recorded in the southwestern part of Coitsville Township was named Riverside School. It was located in the Fairview district of the township, which encompassed the entire hillside of the future city of Campbell. Almost all the residents of the district lived west of the school, toward a section known in the early 1900's as Cover's Corners, after the W.W.Cover family. The land involved was purchased for forty-five dollars in 1860 from Samuel Fitch who owned 137 acres in the area. The Coitsville board of education bought a small parcel for the sole purpose of establishing a school.
The actual date of the building of the first school is lost in time. However, the 1874 Atlas of Mahoning County indicates a schoolhouse on the site in that year. How long this school was used is still unclear, but it is known by old-timers a two room schoolhouse existed before a new, wooden, four-room schoolhouse was built around 1903. The four-room schoolhouse was built above the present site of Fairview school, at First and Main Streets. Coitsville township was proud of these modern, two story, wooden schoolhouse which boasted metal fire escapes from the second floor. This frame building, carrying on the nickname of the Wildcat School,and still known as the Riverside or Main street school, would educate the local children until a growing population demanded a larger school.
Closing the
doors of Fairview School to students 1956 was largely due to the shift in population to
other sections of the city, resulting in the attendance of the more centralized grade
schools. The last class had an enrollment of twelve. The Campbell Board of
Education utilized the entire building, having converted it into offices, storage rooms
and meeting rooms.
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In 1913 Gordon Elementary was built. It was named for the Gordon family who previously owned a farm upon this property. It was transferred to the East Youngstown School District which had become independent from Coitsville Township the previous year. Still the building was to small and the Twelfth Street schoolhouse had to handle the overflow. Land surrounding the new school was purchased between 1915 and 1922 from John McGarry, Edward P.Oatley, Silvestro Merletti and Nick Cosmia, with land donated by Joseph Stramilo. The East Youngstown Board of Education made further plans to add more classrooms and facilities. A four room addition was built during 1915, and another six rooms in 1919, allowing all eight grades to be taught with ease.
Gordon School has a special historic place in life of the city. It served as a hospital during the world wide flu epidemic of 1918, and was the site of naturalization classes for the many who wished to become citizens of the United States. English was taught in night classes for years. With the location of Draft Board #9 in the building during World War II, it became the gathering place for soldiers from Campbell who were leaving for war.
Gordon School
closed its doors to students in June of 1995. The Campbell Board of Education sold
Gordon School to Mr. Matesevic for $1.00.
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The largest building in the elementary system is a Reed Middle School. Completed and opened in 1917 on an acre of land bought from Elmer C. and Audley O. Robinson , it contained 15 classrooms. An addition was sorely needed, and added in 1921 to the lower side, more the doubling it size with thirty-one classrooms. Lots surrounding the school were purchased separately through the years from Michael Dander, George Zupko, Joseph Dlugas, Fred Verlott, Matt Pacak, Mary Zboya, and Andrew Pauley to add playground and parking facilities. Reed received its name from Reed Avenue, named after the pioneer Reed family. It contained all eight grades and had the largest enrollment of all five elementary schools.
In 1948, the eighth graders were transferred to the high school and for the next twenty-five years, Reed and all the other elementary schools would handle only kindergarten to the seventh graders. A $78,000 gymnasium was added to the Reed Avenue side of the school in 1949, changing much of its original from that view.
In 1974, Reed
was made a Middle School and accepted only the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders from the
city. One of the rooms was converted into a library and all activities
in the school has been geared toward the adolescent student.
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McCartney School was our smallest elementary school, containing only eight classrooms and gymnasium. Built during 1918 and first occupied in the fall of 1919. When land was purchased for the school in 1918, it came through property owners Oscar and Emma Gronquist and Malkom and Anna Nordberg. Nine lots from Jennie M. Kennedy were added in 1922 to complete the school grounds. The school property was originally part of the Joseph McCartney farm, dating back to the early 1830's. The school bears the name of the pioneer McCartney family.
In 1974,
the Board of Education closed McCartney school to it's pupils to save on expenses.
At the same time the changeover of the school system to primary.intermediate and middle
schools resulted in an extra school. The logical choice was the closing of
McCartney.
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Penhale opened in 1920, it was made of Junior High School in 1921 and has the distinction of being the first Junior High School in Mahoning County. The sixteen room school building was on the land which originally was part of the large William Reed Farm. The East Youngstown Board of Education purchased a section of the property in 1918 and added more land in 1919. There was a disagreement over what to name of the proposed school and ballots were sent out to the public. The families were to pick between the names McGarry School or Penhale Avenue School. They chose Penhale, which was the surrounding name of one of developers of East Youngstown Land Development Company.
Penhale carried only the seventh to eleventh grades at first, but by 1922 was a Junior-Senior High and graduated the first high school class in the City of East Youngstown. All of two students were in the class; Julia Schaffert and William Reed. The class of 1923 graduated nine students.
By the fall of 1924, football was introduced, joining basketball for boys and girls. The class of 1924 was no larger than the one before them. The last class to graduate from Penhale High would be the June Class of 1925.
Penhale was
converted into an elementary school. Penhale became the primary school, opened to kindergarten,
first, and second graders from the entire city. The only addition to the school was
the new gymnasium in 1949. The school itself remains in good condition and the
playground is spacious.
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In September, 1922, Superintendent Coursen and the board of education met to consider the purchase of large parcel of land from Mary and Henry Creed and Ella and Thomas Creed, which would be the site of a proposed high school. They agreed to buy the farmland for 16,800 and added in 1923, four more city lots at 1,450, purchased from Matilda and William Reed. The total area involved enveloped 14.33 acres of land.
A bond issue was passed in November of 1923, by the vote of 507 for and 417 against. Work on the building started in May,1924, using the architectural designs of the Miller and Son firm. Heller Bros. were the general contractors. As work on the school progressed, it was being referred to as the memorial high school. On June 24,1924, board member James McCartney requested a motion to name the school Memorial High School. The motion was seconded by John McGarry. Class opened on September 8,1925 in newly named named East Youngstown Memorial High School. In April,1926, East Youngstown became Campbell, Ohio, thenceforth the school became known as Campbell Memorial High School. The first class to graduate from Memorial High School graduated on June 10,1926 and had twenty-five students.
More land was to be
purchased for parking facilities and practice fields during the next twenty years from
Creed family. In 1965 a fieldhouse was added to the north side of the high school
and accomplished without any additional taxation during the term of Superintendent
Nicholas D'Amato. The fieldhouse was $727,350 gift in the form of a court ruling
returning excess taxes charged to the school system, and challenged by Mr.D'Amato a few
years before. Mr.D'Amato added a $148,839 stadium athletic building in
1967,enhancing the north side of the field, and giving Campbell a total school and sports
complex valued over two million dollars. The present value would climb far beyond
this figure. In 1969 Mr. D'Amato died while in office, still a young man and a great
loss to the school system and community. The board of education felt there was no more
fitting tribute than to name the fieldhouse after his name. Thus the structure
became known as D'Amato Fieldhouse and took its place in Campbell Memorial history.
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