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Photo 63A-MCL-9

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Moorefield Township School in New Moorefield. This school is no longer standing.

School was built in 1917, replacing several earlier schoolhouses. The gym was added later.
It was New Moorefield High School until 1952, when Northeastern High School opened and the previous high schools [New Moorefield, Catawba, Plattsburg] became elementary/middle schools.
In 1984, it was decommissioned; Rolling Hills Elementary had absorbed its students. In 1985, the gym's roof was ripped off during a storm [some say the gym collapsed]. The building was immediately condemned and demolished, with the rubble going a few miles away.

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