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Whitley County Consolidated Schools
Distance: 0.5 Mi107 N Walnut St Ste A
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NACCAP
Distance: 25.0 MiPO Box 5211
46750-5211 Huntington -
Hartford City News Times Inc.
Distance: 49.6 Mi123 S Jefferson St
47348 Hartford City -
Ihsteca
Distance: 63.2 Mi3208 E Randal Dr
47303 Muncie -
Ball State Daily News
Distance: 67.2 MiBall State University Arts-Journalism Room 276
47306-0001 Muncie
Description
Columbia City High School is 124 years old in 2005 and every year has been alive with education, people and change. Before today's blue jeans and t-shirts, CCHS saw long skirts and bustles; crinolines, pony tails, and saddle shoes; and mini-skirts and go-go boots. It has taught readin' and writin' as well as computer science and driver training. Discipline began with the willow stick and evolved to psychology and suspensions. Organized in 1877 by W. C. Barnhart, CCHS first held school in 1880 in the first West Ward building, erected in 1869 one-half block north of West Van Buren Street between Elm and Walnut streets. Mr. Barnhart was superintendent and J. E. McDonald was its principal. The two students in this class were awarded diplomas in 1881, those being Miss Nathalie (Mason) Mullon and David S. Linvill, who became one of the town's leading physicians. This building was demolished and in 1905 a new high school was erected on the site.