Maple Grove School in 1910. This image appeared in the Moline Dispatch April 13, 1965.

Maple Grove, 1975.

Maple Grove School building, which now functions as a church, is located on old Black Hawk Road, at the base of the Rock River bluff just south of Prospect Park. Visible in the background of this 1975 photo (bottom) is the Prospect Park auditorium perched atop the bluff.

The predecessors to Maple Grove date back to a pre-1865 log schoolhouse, which was located about a half mile to the east near the southeast corner of today’s 16th Street and 36th Avenue. It was replaced in 1865 by a wood-frame building at the current building site, which either then or soon thereafter became known as Maple Grove School. After modifications were made to the building during the nineteenth century, a new two-story frame building was constructed in 1910. Then in the depression era, the first part of the current brick building was constructed with the help of Federal funds. Students moved into the new building in March, 1939.

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