90 UNION COUNTY PAST AND PRESENT 1
efforts of Mr. Hatfield and a committee of citizens, ground was
’ secured and a schoolhouse erected high above fioodwaters on a .
‘ l hill between Caseyville and Mulfordtown. This school, which .
combined grades and a high school, continued successfully for  
many years. It was always known as "The Hill." Today high _
P school students in Caseyville attend the Sturgis school.
The first school in Sturgis, established in 1888, was a private
subscription school taught by Miss Nora Beard. Prior to this I
time the children of the Sturgis area attended schools at Com-
mercial Point and at Cypress. In 1906 Sturgis had its iirst public
School, a two—story, twelve-room brick building on Lee Street,
between Tenth and Eleventh. In 1911 it became an accredited G
high school, adding manual training, domestic Science, and
physical training to the curriculum. A new high school building
was completed in 1921; it became the Junior High School in 1937,
when the new Senior High School was erected. This building
contains sixteen classrooms and a gymnasium.
The Ohio Valley College was founded at Sturgis in 1895 by
the Baptists of Union County. The building, a two—story brick,
I stood on a gently rolling, tree—shaded campus of twelve acres. In
addition to a regular college department, the school included
teacher—training, commercial courses, and music. A dormitory, ,
called the McGill Home, was erected in 1907. From the first the
college had astruggle for existence and finally, in 1914, closed
for lack of funds. The building was dismantled and the material —
used in the construction of the First Baptist Church of Sturgis. I
The dormitory was sold for a private residence.
Uniontown had no public schools, according to records, until  f-
1872, when, at the request of the Rev. G. A. Vantroostenberghe,
pastor of St. Agnes Church, St. Rose Academy, a coeducational f
grade school, was established by the Sisters of Charity of Naza- A
reth. In 1905 a new brick building was completed and the name I
changed to St. Agnes School. A high school was opened in 1922 _
in the little brick chapel opposite St. Agnes Church. The flood G
of 1937 rendered the high school building uninhabitable and `
Father A. H. Tompkins undertook to erect an addition to the
grade school which would accommodate high school students. As l
no funds were available, he requested from every man in the
parish a donation of fifteen days` work or the equivalent in  _
money. In December, 1938. the new building was completed.  _