July, 2004


	MADISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL AT JERSEYTOWN Madison Township voters in a 1931 special election approved a plan to consolidate its ten one room schools and enlarge the school at Jerseytown to accommodate all of the students. Expanding the school in the summer became a community projected as described by one resident: "Farmers pitched in and helped dig under the cellar of the then existing one-room school, and added on the other rooms. The area women held picnic suppers for workers during the construction period." In addition to elementary grades, the school offered junior high classes. Graduates attended high school at Millville. The School Board also instituted a new service, school buses to bring the students to the new school. When it opened on September 8, 1931, the enrollment was 213 students. After fifty years, the Madison School closed its door in the spring of 1981 since maintenance costs were too high to continue using the building. Years earlier Madison Township had become part of the Millville School District and students were re-assigned to the school in Millville. Today, the old school building is still in use but as a community center.

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