Children at Stringtown School Doorway
Datec. 1900
MediumPaper
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number1987.1.77
DescriptionChildren with teacher in the doorway of Stringtown School.The Stringtown school in the photo is likely the Alma School building, which was located south of Main Street on the east side of Alma School Road just before that street crosses the railroad tracks.
The Mormon settlers – known as the B. F. Johnson Company - who came to Tempe in the early 1880s had many connections with the Stringtown settlers. These Johnson Company pioneers sold most of their Tempe properties in the late 1880s and moved to the area just south of the modern intersection of Dobson and Broadway Roads in Mesa (and a mile west of the Stringtown settlement). They named their new community Nephi.
Stringtown was a nickname for the Mormon community that settled along what came to be known as Alma School Road in Mesa. The initial settlers arrived to this area in 1880. The Stringtown nickname is generally attributed to the string apparently used to separate the surveyed properties of these settlers along the road.
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