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Muncie High School’s first students met in different locations before finding a semi-permanent home in 1867 in the basement of the original Universalist Church, located at the northeast corner of Madison and Jackson streets (MadJax). The first Muncie High School building, located where Ivy Tech’s Fisher Building is today, wasn’t completed until 1880. Muncie’s first high school class, a cohort of seven women, graduated in 1868 and included Louise Nelson, Rose Ross, Frone Case, Mary Craig Paine, Florence Anthony, and Lizzie Montgomery. This first class also included Ida Husted who, in t...

Bygone Muncie: Writer and suffragist Ida Husted Harper was a Munsonian of national renown © Photo provided Ida Husted Harper, onetime Muncie resident and nationally-recognized writer and suffragist, is shown around 1910. Formal education was unsystematic and infrequent in Muncie’s first few decades. The first schoolhouse, a log cabin, was located at the southwest corner of Main and Walnut streets, just north of what is now the Accutech Building. As time wore on, local governments improved education and added several school houses and eventually, a graded system to advance students seekin...