Little Point, Schools

Early school in Adams Township were taught in private homes by local residents. By 1824 there were two schools organized in the northern part of the township. After the passage of the Common School Law in 1852, frame schools were built. By 1875 there were eight or nine schools in the township. Oak Grove School was reportedly "on the little point", two miles north west of Crown Center, where Carl Sims built a home. The school was closed by 1902.

Little Point School was a brick structure and was open until 1921. After that time students attended Curtis School at Crown Center. In 1896, Mr. Alfred M. Smith was the instructor at Little Point School. Some of the students in attendance were; Bertha and Hallie Blunk; Fred, James, Mamie, Mona, Nora, and Tressie Bourn; Bonnie, Eva, Ola, and R. Chenoweth; Hallie and Walter Dorsett; Frank and Nellie Hazelett; Carl, Carven, Mary, Tresman, and Truman Milhon; Orville, Otto, and Roscoe Patton; Otto and Willie Phillips; Clarence Radliff; Cordelia and Everett Risinger; Ed and Virgil Shake; Alpha, Ethel, Joseph H., Lula, Myrtle, and Oresta Smith; Annie, Clint, and Gurney Taylor; Earl Warmouth, and Otto Woods. Leona Curtis taught the last year of the school, 1921. Students were; Dean, Don, and Garrett Dorsett, Robert Bourn, Elmer and James Milhon, Glenn Montgomery, Myrtle Ogles, Oran and Wayne Rhea, Audrey Patton, Ethel and Woodrow Warmouth, and Violet Curtis.

In 1902 a two-story brick school was built and called Crown Center School. This was a township consolidated school and brought about the closure of some smaller schools in the area including Lake Valley School, and Oak Grove School. The building is reported to have been next to Mount Tabor Christian Church and built by Dick Pruitt. The Crown Center Class of 1914 included Glenn Curtis. He also coached the grade school basketball team of that year. Mr. Curtis went on to develop the Martinsville High School physical education program in 1919. He coached the school's basketball team for many years and under his leadership they were the Indiana State Basketball Championships in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1933.The Glenn Curtis Memorial Auditorium is now the West Middle School gymnasium in Martinsville. It was advertised as the largest auditorium in the world

Students from Crown Center and the surrounding area attend the Eminence School, which offers Kindergarten through 12th grade.

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All photographs and graphics by Ron Riggan. Text written and researched by Marsha Riggan.