In 1892 it became necessary to build again and $20,000 were voted for ward-school improvements — additions being
made to South Joplin (now the Franklin School), East Joplin, Byersville and North Heights (now Columbia).
The north half of the present high school was built in 1896.
A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, by Joel Thomas Livingston, 1912.
Columbia school was located south of the corner of North Sergeant and F Streets.
1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance map. It appears the tower faced the south.
Postcard showing the Columbia school, circa 1910.
Photo from The Joplin News Herald, Mining-Industrial Annual Edition, 1915.
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