Information Sheet

 

 

R         Washington County (Mo.).  School District No. 3.  Hochstatter School.

226                  Records, 1879-1897.

                                    Two volumes.

 

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These are the district clerk’s record book, 1879-1892, and attendance register, 1893-1897, of a rural school district south of Potosi in Washington County, Missouri.  Hochstatter School, also known as Seyfarth School, was established in 1879.

 

Hochstatter School was located about 2½ miles south of Potosi.  The minute book in­cludes a particularly detailed record of its founding, which began on 5 April 1879 with a meet­ing at the “old store house at Crammer’s saw mill.”  C. V. F. Hochstatter donated an acre of ground for a building site, and was elected district clerk.  A petition in 1891 resulted in build­ing a new school on a site closer to the center of the district.  The new site was on an acre tract donated by Charles O. Sey­farth, a school director and district clerk succeeding C. V. F. Hoch­statter.  These two vol­umes of school records remained in Seyfarth’s family after his death and the school’s discon­tinua­tion.  His granddaughter donated them to the Mine au Breton Histori­cal Society in 1985.

 

 

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