This page will provide space for those buildings that have since been razed or replaced by school districts which
are still in operation. So many of our memories of our school days center around the high school building we
attended and its unique character. If you attended high school in a special building that has been replaced by
a more modern building write to us and let us know. We, as always, are looking for photos to share of your
high school building. Some buildings, like the first one we will list, have great stories regarding their contruction
and development. We hope you will share this information with us as well.
Payson Seymour High School Building
The building pictured above was the original Payson Seymour High School building. It was submitted to us by a good friend of the Glory Days site, Richard Heitholt.
This is the Seymour High School building of Payson which was dedicated in 1916. The building was financed
by the Seymour family and dedicated to Charles Seymour who was killed in the baseball accident
in 1915 at the age of 16. The Seymour family also built a library for Knox College. This building now serves as a grade
school for the Payson Seymour School District.
Jeffrey Hughes also provided this bit of information on Payson Seymour High School:
"I believe the school was built and it served as the high school, as a lot of small towns served still today
by the district had grade schools. Later (50's or so) a High school was built across the street as Seymour High School. The
old school was renamed Seymour Grade school at that time. Payson High was there before the Seymour family built theirs, and
some structural stuff existed during completion, including the gym. This will explain the different names. There is actually
a large trophy cabinet in the grade school containing all high school athletic trophies from the old days, and another few
in the "new" school."
Galesburg High School / Knox College Seymour Library
| Galesburg High School - Original Building |
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| Galesburg Seymour Library |
Galesburg's original high school buiding is the top of the photo above.
"Galesburg built a new HS building and closed the old one in 1959. A few years later the old
building burned to the ground. The old school had a building called Steel gym with a boy's basketball gym and swimming
pool and identical facility for the girls. There was also a separate building for Home Ec. The new school had
a gym and no swimming pool."
The Seymour Library is in the bottom of the photo above. If you read the excerpt
from beneath the photo at the top of the page you know that the Seymour family donated the money to build the library at Knox
College.
Hillsboro High School
| Hillsboro Community High School 1939 - Present |
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| Submitted by Don LeMay |
| Hillsboro High School ?? - 1939 |
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| Submitted by Don LeMay |
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