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Show NPSForm10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) 0MB No 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. _8_ Page _6_ Echo School, Echo, Summit County, UT The Echo Protestant Church, 24 built in 1876, was also used by the Echo District School, operating as a territorial school. Echo was primarily a non-Mormon railroad town. The educational function of the building was under the supervision of the local school district, and was used by the Presbyterians and Congregationalists for ecclesiastical purposes. The school used this building during 1880-1902 midweek while church services were held on Sundays. The Presbyterian Church held services in the building from 1876-1880. The Congregational Church started using the school for services in 188225 and continued through 1902. This was a practical arrangement for sharing "community" facilities in a small town such as Echo. After 1905, the IDS Ward began to meet in the Echo School, and continued to meet there until 1914 when the school sold the building to the Echo LDS Ward for $300.26 The Echo School District collected funds for a school beginning in 1875. Prior to the establishment of the church, the Echo School District raised $3400 through a tax assessment during 1875. Ms. Weaver was donating a portion of her monthly $4.50 salary to help defray costs in 1880.27 Funding of a school at this time was difficult because a state tax base was not implemented for schools until 1880. As was typical of Utah's district schools, the annual budget of the school was very limited. The 1887 budgetary allotment of $112.02 covered approximately 50 students in the Echo District.28 The building of the Echo School was proposed by the city in 1914. According to the minutes of April 24, 1914, "a two-room schoolhouse for School District No. 16 (ECHO)" was to have plans and specifications filed with the clerk of the school board on or before May 20, 1914. The student population of Echo School remained fairly consistent between 1899 and 1929 with an average of about 41 students each year. A former student, Laurel Brewer, currently (1997) living in Henefer, attended school during 1927-34, and recalls that the building had two classrooms and a The Echo Church and School is listed in the National Register of Historic Places (1/5/89). After the new school was built in 1914, the first school was purchased by the LDS church. Lyon, T. Edgar. " Evangelical Protestant Missionary Activities in Mormon Dominated Areas, 1865-1900," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 1962, p. 181. Although other reports from Echo residents, as reported by Sandra Morrison, state that the Congregationalists did not use the Protestant Church, she also stated that there is a marriage certificate from 1890 with the place of marriage at the Echo Congregational Church. The town of Echo had already begun to decline as the Echo Ward bought the school. Ward membership dropped from 108 persons in 1911 to 88 by the time of purchase in 1914, and down to 79 by 1915. Declining membership forced the Echo Ward to first become a branch of the Henefer LDS Ward, and finally dissolve in 1963. National Register nomination of Echo Church/School, 1989, on file at Utah State Historic Preservation Office. Deseret Evening News. November 11, 1875, p.4-5. Echo Church/School, National Register Nomination, 1989. On file at the Utah State Historic Preservation Office. X See continuation sheet |
