Like many in western Morgan County, I’ve recently learned that the historic 1913 building at Eminence Community Schools is expected to be demolished in the coming months.
While there are certainly practical reasons for that decision, I find myself thinking less about the building itself and more about the people whose lives were shaped within its walls.
For more than a century, students learned there. Teachers invested their careers there. Lifelong friendships were formed there. Victories were celebrated there. Countless everyday moments became lifelong memories. This building doesn’t just welcome people to Eminence; it is Eminence.
Buildings come and go. Bricks eventually turn to dust. Communities endure because their stories are remembered.
That’s why I’m asking for your help.
I’m hoping to gather memories, photographs, newspaper clippings, yearbook pages, and other pieces of history connected to this remarkable building. Whether you attended school there, taught there, worked there, cheered in its gymnasium, or simply have memories of events held there, your story matters.
The building may be coming down, but its story doesn’t have to.
If you have memories or photographs to share, please visit https://form.jotform.com/261605688121154 or scan the QR code accompanying this week’s article.
Together, we can preserve a piece of Eminence history for future generations, if only in our memories.
Chet Cromer
Eminence
