Jefferson School (Clay Annex)

14th & McColloch Streets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The site was purchased from Central Glass Works, N. B. Scott, President, in 1896, according to a record in the Ohio County Board of Education office. It was a three story red brick structure containing ten rooms.

 

As an annex of Clay, it served the East Wheeling area in the lower grades until the Clay School was built at 15th & Wood Streets. In this time it gradually became an “Opportunity School” until the teachers devoted all their time to the training of children with special needs.

 

The Special School was closed in 1965, and this service was transferred to the Lincoln School at 1000 Chapline Street.

 

From “A Collection About Ohio County Public Schools,” Collector Levering Bonar. 1978