Pierce County, ND Scandia School District #22

When Pierce County was organized in 1889, the first act of the County Commission was to organize the county into nine school districts.  Elverum township was organized into two school districts with three schools.  In 1913 the three districts combined into one and became Scandia School District #22.  The school housed grades 1-8, plus a four year high school program.  The high school was absorbed into the Rugby school system in 1956 and the remaining grades were absorbed into the Rugby system in 1970.

The collection consists of school board minutes, correspondence, financial records, clerks' records and various subject files for a school district composed of German-Russians and Norwegian-Americans.  Also includes a paper by Walden Duchsher, "A Study of Educational Differences in a German-Russian - Norwegian Community."  The records also give a good picture of the district's financial difficulties in the 1930's depression. 
 

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