Hibernia School-An early History - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Hibernia School was on land first entered from the United States government by Nichols Smith.  Th land was located E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 Section 17, Township 18 Range 5 West.  Land was sold by Jackson and Mary McCormack to Benton Ripley Township trustee.

The term Hibernia means winter quarters.  In years gone by flat boats load with flour, corn, pork and other commodities started at the old Hibernia Mills down Sugar Creek to the Wabash River and on to Terre Haute.

In 1906 Hibernia School was closed for one year and the students were hauled to Alamo.  After one year it was reopened and was used as a school until 1911.  Mary (Payton) Selby was the last teacher at the Hibernia School.  Tilligham Gass hold (hauled) the students in a horse drawb (drawn) hack to the Alamo School.  Some of the students went to the Yountsville School.

After the school was abandoned in 1913, the building was dismantled and moved southwest of the Camp Rotary property to Road 500 S. in Union Township.  The lumber was used to build a house which later burned.