First, I scanned the Genoatk; 1948. That is the yearbook from the Scottsville High School. It says on the title page that this is only the sixth yearbook that they had published. I know that the school goes back farther than that but I guess they didn’t published a yearbook.

The class of 1948 is only 20 students but there are two sets of twins. The lower classes all have group pictures all the way down to Kindergarten.

Their school soccer team won the Class ‘C’ championship for the year. Class ‘C’ was for small schools.

In 1955 the Scottsville High School would become Wheatland-Chili School District. They are still the smallest school district in Monroe County.

This yearbook gave me some problems because of “bleed-through.” That was from using thin paper. But in the end, it up looking pretty good.

I also scanned a 1922 Highway Map that is 18 x 20 inches (Jpeg file). It shows types of the County roads. Roads colored yellow (looks more like gold) are gravel roads. Roads colored red are designated as “Macadam.” Macadam was pioneered by Scottish engineer John L. McAdam. He used crushed stone with larger sizes on the bottom and small stones on the top with stone dust in between stones. That worked good for horse drawn wagons but not for automobiles as they kicked up the dust. So during the early 1900s they covered the stones with tar or coal tar. Asphalt would start being laid in the 1920s but I would bet that most of those roads colored in red on the map are just tar covered.

Roads on the 1922 map without any colors would still be dirt roads. Are there any dirt roads still in Monroe County? I know that I have traveled on some dirt roads in Wyoming County.