Mill Street School
From Lane Co Oregon
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|image=
|image_description=Mill Street School, c.1905.
(Photo courtesy of the Springfield Museum)
|building_name=Mill Street School
|style=
|construction=1889
|destruction=
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|owner=Springfield school district
|initial_use=School
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|city=Springfield
|area=[[Springfield Downtown
|address=Mill Street
|zip_code=97477
|importance=First prominent Springfield school
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History
The school district replaced the pioneer school building in the 1880s. The Mill Street School, as it was called, was only a one-story, two-room building, which the student population quickly outgrew.
There is evidence that a cheese factory was in operation on Mill Street until 1889, when the factory building was converted into a school (Graham 1978a). The school was the first of a series of schoolhouses to occupy the Mill and D Street site that now holds the present school administration building, which was built in 1921 as a high school (Graham 1978a).
