JEROMESVILLE — Prior to moving into its new facility for the 2023-2024 school year, the Hillsdale Local School District will be hosting open-house building tributes for its current schools.
The second of the three is this Sunday, April 23 at the middle school, 144 N. High St., Jeromesville, Ohio 44840 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The public is invited to tour the building, reminisce about walking through its halls, and enjoy memorabilia submitted by both private citizens and the Jeromesville Historical Society.
Recording booths will be available for individuals to relate a short story about the building and their memories.
The high school (Twp. Rd. 1902, Jeromesville) open house will be May 6 from 9 AM to 12 PM. The open house at the elementary school was hosted on March 11.
The Jeromesville building was built in 1927, with an additional wing added in 1954, the same year that the school’s football team went undefeated to win the titles of Ashland County Champions and the six-man football championship.
Prior to the Hayesville and Jeromesville consolidation in 1961, the Jeromesville Local mascot was the Blue Jays with blue and white as the school colors.
The Jeromesville School District was a consolidation of 137 students from the village and somewhere between 16 to 35 students from roughly six one-room schoolhouses.
The village students had been attending school in three locations prior to the opening of the 1927 building: grades 7 to 12 were housed in the building that Fickes Furniture now owns at 63 N. High St. in Jeromesville; grades 1 to 6 were educated in two buildings where the village park is now.
