Education History

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The Cumberland Academy: The School That Existed Before Truman

Cumberland Academy briefly operated in Civil War-era Kirksville, but the strongest evidence supports building and property continuity with Joseph Baldwin’s 1867 school rather than institutional continuity.

Lincoln School: Recovering the History of Kirksville’s Segregated Black School

Kirksville’s Lincoln School served Black students under segregation, with the surviving 1914 building at 907 S. Wabash representing a longer educational history that began decades earlier.