Last Modified: October 4, 2023

Teacher, Alice Evanson. Students (top left to bottom) Rita, “Doc” and Mary Martelle, and Dick Marie and Frank Sadler stand for a class photo.)

Alice Evanson (top right of picture) taught at Oil Springs School in the mid-early 1900’s. Like most one room school houses, class sizes were generally small and spanned multiple generations of the same family. Students (top left to bottom) Rita, “Doc” and Mary Martelle, and Dick Marie and Frank Sadler stand for a class photo.

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