Returning again to the hills of Columbus this week we will relate the facts regarding District #10 known as the Carter School. Regretfully this school house no longer stands as it burned several years go. The Carter School was on the corner of Shawler Brook and Kelly Roads and was last owned by Walter Harsnett. The photo accompanying this article gives one and idea of the style of the schoolhouse and shows what was a chimney located at the rear, also that this school had a bell tower on the roof. Also note that the door was not on the front but on the side with two windows towards the rear of the building.

The below documentation of Carter School was written several years ago by the Columbus Historian contained in “Columbus Cronicles” that she wrote documenting the history of Columbus through a series of articles. The article written below is quoted verbatim as she wrote it and all credit for the information should be given to Mrs. Avery.

GOING TO SCHOOL IN THE 1920S AND 30S

“My dad, Donald Brown, who was born in Columbus in 1911 and lived on what is now his son’s Roger Brown, farm, walked to school at the Carter School House. At the end of the Eighth grade, the children continued to school in New Berlin at the High School.