The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The Cathay School was already out of service for 30 years when this photo was taken in 2010. It was demolished this past May.
It's gone now. The site is now a leveled patch that will someday just grow grass. It used to grow minds. It's the city block that once was the home to the two-story solid brick school in Cathay, N.D.
That brick building of knowledge was built to be indestructible. On January 31, 1919, the first two-story brick Cathay school burned to the ground. In March the town had a mass meeting to discuss a ne...
