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Buckeye School History
Lawndale Township
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

In the far northeast corner of Lawndale Township Section 1, 2, and 3 were organized into a school district in 1860. A school was located in the northeast corner of SE 1/4 of Sec. 3. In 1862 a site was purchased. This was on the present Colfax-Weston blacktop, about a 1/2 mile north of the Lexington Toad intersection. In 1866, when the township was divided into 6 districts, a new site a mile west, and a quarter mile south of the old school was selected. Here Buckeye School was built in 1866. It probably got its name for many settlers in this area were from Ohio, the Buckeye state. [History of Lawndale, Martin, And Anchor Townships And The Villages Of Colfax And Anchor - McLean County, Illinois - A Project Of The Bi-Centennial Committee Muriel Martens Hoffman Historian - April 1976]

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