In the Shadow of the Smokestack
an oral history of Mexican Americans in Morenci, Arizona

 

Morenci, Arizona 

LONGFELLOW SCHOOL

The Longfellow School was built in 1902 and was both an elementary school and a high school. It was also called the "Brick Building."

To the left of the school is the Morenci Club which excluded Chicanos.

 

 

Longfellow School (c. 1902)

 

 

The second story was added in 1907 along with a bell tower, and a fire escape. When the first high school was built, this building housed upper elementary classes. It looked like this until it was dismantled in the late sixties with the rest of the town.

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