Elsey School - Elsey MO USA
N 36° 51.327 W 093° 32.422
15S E 451829 N 4078973
A small school in the ghost town of Elsey north of Galena in Stone County, Missouri
Waymark Code: WMZBRX
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2018
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This school is on a road named for the school, namely Elsey School Road. A web search did not turn up much about this school, but a transcript from a 1927 booklet (web link below) indicates that Elsey was "a religious community with a good school and two substantial church buildings". It also lists a few of the businesses at the time.
In my experience, I have seen these old schools do one of the following:
- become abandoned and decay into a pile of material
- get repurposed into a community building or community center
- become a workshop for a newer home built near it
- get repurposed into a church (though many also served as churches as well as a school in their day)
- get remodeled into a home
- get burned down or otherwise destroyed
and a few other things. This one was remodeled into a private residence.