Early Beginnings
The picture of the school on the mural is the old school house in District Number 2 was organized in 1856. The board and residents built the school which was the 2nd school built in Anoka County. The original school was located across from where the WCCO Radio transmitter station now stands.
Brick School
In 1876, a new brick school, the one you see on the mural, was built at the present intersection of Crooked Lake Boulevard and Coon Rapids Boulevard. 2 other schools were built in Anoka Township, now Coon Rapids, in the late 1800s.