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Mount Vernon High School

1910 – Glass Negatives – MVHS Boys Basketball Team

1910 - Glass Negatives - MVHS Boys Basketball Team- 8 boys from the Mount Vernon High School Basketball Team pose for a picture.

1910 – Glass Negatives – MVHS Boys Basketball Team- 8 boys from the Mount Vernon … Read more …

Categories 1910 Glass Negatives, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Basketball, Boys Basketball, Glass Negatives, Hodgson, Joe and Gloria Burkart, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

photo of High School

Among the historic resources found in Mount Vernon is the 1927 High School Building.  This … Read more …

Categories Building Genealogies, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos, Newsletters & Articles Tags Mount Vernon High School, Ward Elementary School

1930 Model A Ford owned by Virgil Crofter

Photo of 1930 Model A Ford

1930 Model A Ford. This was Virgil Crofter’s first car purchased new at Rude Auto … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Crofter Collection, Ivanhoe, Mount Vernon High School

High School Class of 1902

Photo of Mount Vernon High Class of 1902

High School Class of 1902 Donated by Marcia Humphries Driscoll and Cathy Humphries Stoner   … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

My House

collage of photos of an historic house being moved

By Larry Covington William Abbe, the first white settler of Linn County, lived on the … Read more …

Categories Building Genealogies, High School History Reports, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags High School History Reports, Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of inside of banquet menu for mount vernon high school class of 1917

@1917. Mount Vernon High School banquet menu

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of high school banquet 1917 menu

@1917 Junior-Senior High School Banquet 1917. Mr. Kensinger.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of Mount Vernon High School Teacher's contract

@1915. Mount Vernon High School Teachers Contract for Superintendent H.E. Kensinger.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of back of 1917 pamphlet

@1917. Back of Graduating Exercises of the Class of 1917 pamphlet. “Largest class in the … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of inside of the Graduating class of 1917 pamphlet

@1917. Inside of Graduating Exercises of the Class of 1917 pamphlet.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of pamphlet for the graduating class of 1917.

@1917. Graduating Exercises of the Class of 1917. Pamphlet. Methodist Church. Wednesday, May 23, 1917. … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School

Mount Vernon High School

Photo of end page of Mount Vernon High School Project

@1915. End page for Photos and poetry school project for Mount Vernon High School. P.20. … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon High School, School Project
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2 years ago

Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 years ago

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UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less
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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission updated their status.

2 years ago

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