Van Buren County High School

Van Buren County High School was built in the late 1930s with James Maurice Taft, Superintendent of Schools that year, responsible for work beginning on the school. The second envisioned by Taft would have cost the county an estimated $80,000. Aware that this was a huge cost for the small county in the 1930s, he set out to find a way. After spending $309 for 103 acres of cut-over forest land,...