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Sebring Ohio Historical Society
| 126 North 15th Street Sebring, Ohio 44672 330-938-6920 |
| Schools of Sebring, Ohio |
| B.L. Miller School Located at 506 West Virginia. Built with a 1967 bond issue and a donation of $20,000 from Beatrice L. Miller, founder and head of the Royal China Company. |
| F.A. Sebring School Built in 1949, it replaced the old South Side School. Located on West Texas Avenue, it cost $150,000 to build. |
| Lincoln School Located on the northwest corner of Indiana Avenue and 17th Street. Built for $20,000 in 1909 as a high school until McKinley was built. Currently an apartment complex. |
| Sebring McKinley High School Original section built in 1914 as an elementary school. Became a high school in 1924. The building had a number of expansions and renovations over the years. A bond issue in 1998 removed part of the structure and kept others, but added much more space to the building. The original sports teams were called the Potters, later becoming the Trojans. Football games were held at the racetrack, where Akenhead Field now stands. This was where horses and cars also raced. The 1935 team claimed the first Tri-County league championship. |
| Ohio Avenue School Constructed in 1901 at a cost of $6,000. A one room three-year high school, it enrolled 10 students in the first year. Building torn down in the late 1930's. Before this school was built, classes were held in an old barn over the Gray farm. |
| First Graduating Class Ohio Avenue School, 1904 Earl McIntosh Gertrude Beggs, Gladys Lamborne Barkley, Ella B. Larkins |
| Many class photos are available at the Strand Museum. Come See! |
| First Schools The original plan for Sebring Schools was a public system. However, before that could be built, a private school for the education of the children of the founders was conducted in a two room building at the corner of Maryland Avenue and 15th street. The teacher was Laura Crew Talbott of Damascus. Later, a barn was hauled into the center of town, which served alternately as a church and a school in 1900. It was on the southwest corner of Oregon Avenue and 15th Street. Miss Anna Begue was the teacher. Then came the one room structure at the southwest corner of Oregon Avenue and 15th street, which served grades one to eight. The instructor was Anna Begue. The Ohio Avenue building was then built a year later, at a cost of $6,999. It housed a three year high school with an enrollment of ten. Professor Marshall Cox doubled in the role of principal and only high school teacher. Grade school teachers were Carrie Miller, Mabel Gaunt and Grace Sweinhart. The first president of the Sebring Board of Education, Walter Crewson, remembers a group of lads placing Limburger cheese on the radiator, and how he gave them a dressing down and a day off school while the building was aired. The culprits were Fred Shaffer, Earl Windle, and Don Albright. |
