A lot of history to park and Rock Creek

Your article about 23rd Street was interesting, especially its boundaries. North to Winner Road east to Crysler Avenue and Scott Street. Both Crysler and Scott run parallel to each other.

However, no matter. Hill Park was mentioned several times. Students at the real Rock School were taught to call it “Hill’s Park” probably because Hill’s Cemetery is part of the park, and perhaps because Hill may have formed the park from his holdings. I don’t have that information, but I do know that William Chrisman High School, and Independence, taught us that it was “Hill Park,” possibly because they didn’t know or care about the Rock Creek history. I do because my classmates and I attended that school and we learned its history.

The police are all younger than I, and it no longer makes any difference, except historically, that Rock Creek is no longer a school, nor is the old William Chrisman school, but they still stand.

I do have a three-page history of Rock Creek School dating from 1826 through 1938 thanks to Mrs. William Clark’s series of articles, and my additions. The brick building dates from 1924, and the two-room wooden portion of the school was still in use in 1938.