From the 3rd floor
of the Webb City Public Library
January 31, 2024
Prairie Flower School was located on the west edge of Webb City, at the intersection of MacArthur Drive and Prairie Flower Road.
It is said that the school began operations in the late 1860s or the early 1870s. Former student, James Moss, said the original school house was moved closer in, on Fourth Street, about 1913.
The school operated until it was annexed by Webb City in 1949. Most of the students were sent to the West Side School, with the fifth and sixth graders attending Eugene Field.
After the school closed, the building housed a church congregation and the Prairie Flower 4-H Club. The school building was slated for demolition but ultimately moved to 332 S. Oakland St. (west of Walgreens).
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