1883 is the real beginning of Wellston high school. The southern part of the city grew rapidly and a school was needed in that part of town. The first was a wooden structure which burned and the brick school was built. The school built in the west was named Harvey Wells after the founder of the town.
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Coalton
Coal Twp. High School
closed at the end of the 1963-1964 School year. Their mascot name was the
Vikings and the school colors were Blue
and Yellow.
There basketball team prior to closing the school, I
think, were members of the SVAC for a few years, with Hannan-Trace, North
Gallia, Kyger Creek, Southwestern, Racine Southern-Meigs, Reedsville
Eastern-Meigs and I think former Union Furnace High School in Hocking County.
I know they used to play then Richmondale Southeastern-Ross who was the big
rival game between the Coalton Vikings and Richmondale SE-Ross Panthers. Beaver
and Stockdale High Schools in Pike County who were also rivals with Coalton.
Bloomfield, Scioto Twp., Washington Twp., Wellston and Oakhill High Schools in
Jackson County, Shade, Albany and Carbonhill High Schools in Athens County which
is now Albany Alexander High School formed in 1967. I know they used to play
against all the Vinton County former High Schools too. McArthur, Allensville,
Zaleski, Vinton Rural, Wilkesville-Wilton and Hamden High Schools.
The fourth school to have football in Jackson County was the Coalton
Vikings. They started the sport in 1939. On October 13, they played
Beaver, in what was also the first game ever for the Pike County team, and
Coalton won 48-0. They finished 2-2 that year, beating Beaver twice and losing
to The Plains and Rio Grande.
Coalton played for three seasons, then missed from 1942 through 1945 because of
World War II. They rekindled the sport in 1946, having their best season ever
with a 4-1-1 record, losing to McArthur and tying Blackfork while defeating
Blackfork, Rutland and the reserve teams of Jackson and Wellston.
The Coalton Vikings played their final game on November 13, 1953, a loss to
Russell, Ky. that ended a winless season of seven games.
Coalton consolidated with Wellston High School starting in the 1964-1965 school
year. When I was in Junior High at Wellston, Coalton School went from K-thru-8th
grade. I remember picking up their Football Players on the Bus when we were
going to play against the Waverly Tigers in a Junior High Football game. I also
remember their Junior High Basketball Team defeating our 8th grade basketball
team at the Coalton Gym in a close one. The Coalton Gym was really a little one
and had a tile floor instead of wooden floor.
Wellston
had a Varsity Basketball and Assistant Football Coach when I attended Wellston
High Schools by the name of Coach Jenkins who graduated from Coalton H.S. My
neighbor who lives beside me in Chillicothe is a 1959 graduate of Coalton H.S.
Coalton was utilized as a 4-5th grade school, I think, before they finally
closed the building a few years back and have since torn down the school. The
old Gym was left but the Village has done nothing with it. I believe the gym
building is falling down.
Coalton Elementary just before being closed in 2002, it was serving several hundred students in grades 4-6. The school was originally Coalton High School, serving the village of Coalton
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Washington Twp. High School
served the kids in Washington TWP in the Byer and Ray area. Washington
Twp. High school consolidated with Wellston City Schools after the 1946-1947
school year. I don't know their school colors or team MOTTO? I think the present
Mayor of Wellston graduated from Washington Twp. High School? The building is
still standing and I believe still owned by Jackson-Vinton Community Action.
They closed the Grade School K-6 out at Washington Twp. after the 1969-1970
school year. The kids transferred to Coalton Grade and Junior High school in the
Wellston City School system beginning in the 1970-1971 school year. Washington
Twp. School was closed along with Harvey Wells Grade school on the West side of
town and South Grade School in the South end of Wellston, due to the opening of
Bundy Elementary School starting in the 1970-1971 school year.
Bloomfield High School across
from Rt. 327. Their mascot was the Falcons and their colors were
green and white. I know
they consolidated with Oak Hill High School. They had a grade school out there
until a few years ago when it was finally closed, due to the new elementary
school built in Oak Hill. Since then they have torn the old school building
down.
Scioto
Twp. High School in the 60's or late 50's they
consolidated with Jackson City Schools. I am not to sure what their school
colors were or MOTTO. They had a grade school out there until a few years ago
when it was finally closed, due to the new elementary schools built in Jackson.
Since then they have torn the old school building down.
If anyone has any info on the old Jackson County High Schools, I would love to
have any information I can build in my data base.
Thanks Army
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Lucas School built 1887 now being used as a township building |
School being used as a Jackson-Vinton Inc. Community Center
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Hickman School in Jackson Township, Jackson County closed in 1951 and students then had to go to Jackson Elementary School The coal shed was near the front of the school and boy and girls toilets behind the school. The coal shed held coal for the stove inside the school which warmed the school during cold days. The school was at the edge of Hickman property. Someone bought the schoolhouse and moved it away. It later burned. Some of the teachers were Gladys McMann, Ethel Weinrich, and Ruth Landrum (3rd-7th grade)
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Wellston High School was used for grades 9-12 and sometimes lower grades as well. Built in 1928 and was updated and remodeled throughout the years. It was located near the center of town giving it good proximity to the football field, bus garage, and several stores. The class of 2002 was the last to graduate from this building.
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See History of Jackson County for more information about Jackson County Schools. See also: Old Schools in Jackson County
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