Indian School Smokestack

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The brick smokestack stands alone where at one time it was attached to the power house that made steam heat which heated the buildings at the Indian Industrial School through underground tunnels. Electricity was also produced in this building.

This stack again reminds us of the total self sufficiency of this school in the way they produced their own central heat source and their own electricity.

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U.S. Indian Industrial School Museum

Founded in 1884, the U.S. Indian Industrial School was located on 320 acres in the town of Genoa. Opening with only one building, the school grew to include thirty-nine structures on 640 acres and a maximum student population of 600

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Four barns still remain that were part of the U.S. Indian Industrial School (1844-1934)

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