History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri (1886), page 644:
"The public school building of Breckinridge. . . .was built in 1872 on a hill
at the south end of Fourth Street. The building is of brick, two stories high,
with a cut-stone basement, window caps and sills, the whole surmounted with
a slate and tin roof of the Mansard style. There are four large school rooms,
with a seating capacity of sixty pupils each. . . .the whole warmed by two of
Kaser's hot-air furnaces in the basement. Dr. Montgomery Bottom has long
been president of the Breckinridge school board, and to him much of the value
of the school is due."
Thanks to Calvin Morgan of Breckenridge, Missouri, for sharing this photo!
![[Breckenridge High School]](brecscol.jpg)
