Rowena Dean, c-1878
First school teacher (foreground) She taught the first two years of school, before leaving to return up north
One fine day in the fall of 1876, Mrs. Hettie Austin, a small, petite lady was traveling around the new community of DeLand in a two wheeled ox cart trying to raise the funds to build a church. She came across Henry DeLand; he gave her the land and a thousand dollars for the material to build it with on the Boulevard contingent upon it also being used as a school.

DeLand School House
Little School House after the fire in 1886

 

 

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