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A newspaper clipping relaying the April 1872 fire at the District #7 schoolhouse, located on present-day River Road (then Doane Road) near 76th Street. Losses were estimated at $500, with the building insured for $200.

A 2000 article detailing the shuttered Inver Grove Elementary, its history, and some teachers and former administrators affected by its loss. The building had just been put up for sale.

A 1976 article detailing a school reunion held at Inver Grove Elementary.

Photographs taken on the grounds of the former Inver Grove Elementary School, now Discovery Charter School and STEAM Academy.

A 1976 article detailed an Inver Grove Elementary school reunion held to coincide with national bicentennial celebrations.

Written in the spirit of the 1976 national bicentennial, this book documents 122 years of schooling in Common School District #7, what would eventually be known as Inver Grove Elementary. It includes selected photographs from the 1880s through 1976,…