Swamp College 1910

[Cobradude22]

If for some crazy reason someone manages to find a better picture of this school, I’d love to see it. I’ve searched high and low, this is what I came up with.

 

[Jose The Goon]

Interesting photo & very interesting college. Looks like it was CO-ED.
Including teacher Nellie Canine, 12 males & 12 females.
Wonder if they lived in a CO-ED Dorm? Some lucky guy must have gotten paired up with Nellie. (for extra credits)
I'm willing to bet that a degree from Swamp College was a ticket to huge successes in life.

I enlarged it & touched it up a bit in case you can't find a better picture. Cheers ! J.T.G.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Not be disrespectful, but I can imagine the nicknames the kids gave Miss Canine. 🐶

 

[Mackaydon]

Some history on Nellie:
Nell was born 27 October 1890 in Browns Valley to Fisher B. and Tassie Mathers Galey. In 1908 she graduated from Waveland High School and then attended Indiana University. On 9 April 1921 she married Joseph R. Canine in Washington D.C. Mrs. Canine was the secretary for the Chief of the Children's Bureau in Department of Labor in Washington, a secretary for the Home Economics Department at Purdue University, and retired from Wabash College's Chemistry Department. Mrs. Canine also operated and owned the Weatherill Restaurant at Browns Valley (anyone have a picture of this restaurant?) and taught school at Browns Valley. This interesting woman lived to be 105 years old (10 November 1995).
Don in SoCal.

 

[pepperj]

Interesting photo & very interesting college. Looks like it was CO-ED.
Including teacher Nellie Canine, 12 males & 12 females.
Wonder if they lived in a CO-ED Dorm? Some lucky guy must have gotten paired up with Nellie. (for extra credits)
I'm willing to bet that a degree from Swamp College was a ticket to huge successes in life.

I enlarged it & touched it up a bit in case you can't find a better picture. Cheers ! J.T.G.
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My counting skills need to be honed a tad it seems, as I came up with 14/11

 

[creskol]

Interesting photo & very interesting college. Looks like it was CO-ED.
Including teacher Nellie Canine, 12 males & 12 females.
Wonder if they lived in a CO-ED Dorm? Some lucky guy must have gotten paired up with Nellie. (for extra credits)
I'm willing to bet that a degree from Swamp College was a ticket to huge successes in life.

I enlarged it & touched it up a bit in case you can't find a better picture. Cheers ! J.T.G.
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Nice job!

 

[Cobradude22]

Nellie Galey Canine ... 105 years of interesting

Brownsvalley School early 1900s This photograph was recently donated to the Crawfordsville District Public Library. Nell (Nellie) Galey...

cdpl-history.blogspot.com

Picture of browns valley high school,

 

[Blackfoot58]

Nellie Galey Canine ... 105 years of interesting

Brownsvalley School early 1900s This photograph was recently donated to the Crawfordsville District Public Library. Nell (Nellie) Galey...

cdpl-history.blogspot.com

Picture of browns valley high school,

Looks kind of Wuthering Heights vs. Bates Motel. 🧟‍♂️👻☠️⚰️

 

[Jose The Goon]

My counting skills need to be honed a tad it seems, as I came up with 14/11

You are correct ! I counted wrong I missed the 3 little guys behind the girls !!
Amazing that Nellie lived to be 105. ("Macaydon")
Thanks "creskol". !!
"Blackfoot58", I was thinking the same thing. Lots of snickering behind her back.
But, she may have had a good sense of humor & probably was aware of the negatives of marrying a man named "Canine". Her friends & family too. If she was self-deprecating like myself, she may have made fun of herself also.
" Good morning class. I will be your teacher this semester". And as she writes her name on the chalkboard she says; " My name is Mrs. Nellie... Galey.... Canine.....Woof Woof " !!!

 

[ken135]

Found another picture of a class at Swamp College. Not sure of the year it was taken.
Swamp College was actually Township School No. 4.

Map 1879

 

[Cobradude22]

This appears to be a different swamp college from the one I’m researching. Its interesting there were 2 schools with that name. The reason why they called it swamp college was because there was an ancient lake in Montgomery county called Ancient Lake Barney if I remember right. The last bit of the lake was the swamp, that’s how it got the name. Read about it in an old book about the county before.