Gary, Thanks for your reply. I feel better now that I am not the only one who is confused. ha I attended the Durfee School in 1950 and I know it wasn't on the West side. My grandmother lived in the 900 block of E. Mueller Ave. and we walked down Jasper St. to go to school. They must have left the building and named the other school Durfee. Thanks for the info. Helen in Idaho > > From: TSQAIR@aol.com > Date: 2004/01/15 Thu PM 05:34:33 PST > To: ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILMACON] Durfee School > > Well I'm confused after watching this dialog. H. B. Durfee Grade School was > where I went to K thru 6 in the 50's. It's address was 1222 E. Grand Ave. The > school and it's playgrounds occupied an entire city block at the corner of E. > Grand Ave. and N. Jasper St. I have a 2000-2001 Decatur telephone book which > gives this address. However, the Decatur Public Schools web-site gives a Durfee > Magnate School at 1000 W. Grand Ave.which is way out west and a long way from > the H. B. Durfee Elementary School that I attended. They don't list any school > on E. Grand. My guess is that they abandoned the old school recently and > moved the name to a newer facility out west. I think the old school is still > standing but maybe not in use. In the 2001 telephone book the school at 1000 W. > Grand was Garfield El. School. I recall Garfield as being a much newer than > Durfee, like maybe the 40's as opposed to Durfee being built in probably the 1900's > or the teens. Interesting conversation. > > Gary Lamb > Plano,TX > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Macon County ILGenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacon/ > >