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Seger Indian School building and water tower, ca. 1901 and 1990. The photograph on the left shows the south (back) and east sides of the Seger school classroom building. Although the boarding school was closed in 1932, the building was used by the Cheyenne and Arapaho as a day school from 1936 to the mid-1940s, by the Colony Union Grade School from the mid-1940s to 1954, and by the Colony High School from 1951 to 1954 after a 1951 tornado destroyed the high school building and gymnasium on the north side of the town. Parts of the building were used by the public school system well into the 1960s. The November 1990 photograph on the right, taken from the opposite direction, shows the classroom building after its destruction by a fire of unknown origin on June 27, 1990. [Left photograph courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society. Right photograph courtesy of the Seger family (L. Yearwood). Caption revised 10/11/03] |