Rockwood School District No. 27

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Description

A photograph of a group of adults and children standing outside of Rockwood School District No. 27 in the 1890s or early 1900s. A sticker caption on the photo identifies one of the men in the photo as John Brown, an early settler in the Rockwood area. The school was located off of 181st and Stark.

Provenance

According to the caption, the photo was donated by J. Ross Brown, John Brown's son. Rockwood was located between Portland and Gresham at the time of its establishment; it was annexed by Gresham in the 1980s and makes up most of the city's western boundary. Residents established the Rockwood School District No. 27 in 1901, and the first one-room schoolhouse followed in 1902 at a cost of $1,000. As the community grew, taxpayers approved a new four-room building in 1908, and the Rockwood Grange took over the former schoolhouse. By the time District No. 27 consolidated with the Reynolds School District in 1976, it also included a middle school, which Portland Lutheran School purchased and took over in 1990. Now, the southern part of the former Rockwood district is part of the Centennial School District, with local children attending Patrick Lynch or Meadows elementary schools, Oliver Middle, and Centennial High School.

Date

1902-1908

Subject

Rockwood

School children

Schools

Group portraits

Location

Rockwood, Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Identifier

ghs0319

Contributor

Gresham Historical Society

Extent

Print, Photographic

Type

StillImage

Item sets

Gresham Heritage