Sugar Creek Township and Vaughnsville High School 1904 - 1936

Education in Sugar Creek Township in Putnam County, Ohio has always been especially important to the progressive immigrants who settled as pioneers in Sugar Creek Township in the middle 1800's. Country schools were begun in various parts of the Township by individuals, families, and religious leaders. These schools were progressive even in their beginnings. The country schools eventually centralized in the towns of Vaughnsville, Rimer and Rushmore. When Vaughnsville's school became certified as an Ohio high school, the Rushmore school closed. The Rimer and Vaughnsville schools began public school transportation in their horse-drawn school buses called hacks. Soon motorized buses were used enabling all high school students to go to the centralized Vaughnsville High School. This history of the school and the township depicts people and events of 1904 to 1936 in Sugar Creek Township of Putnam County, Ohio. This history is one of four compiled by Karen Evans Odell with the assistance of many alumni of Vaughnsville High School and residents of Sugar Creek Township.