Editing Geneseo, Illinois (section)

===20th century school expansion===
[[File:The Old North Side School, Geneseo, Illinois, 1900.jpg|thumb|The old North Side School, Geneseo, Illinois circa 1900|260x260px]]In 1909 the Township High School District was established. It received a major expansion in 1932.<ref name="III district/facts.html">{{Cite web|title = Geneseo Schools|url = http://www.dist228.org/index-new.php?page=district/facts.html|website = www.dist228.org|access-date = September 15, 2015|first = Jackie Bopp & James Roodhouse|last = III}}</ref> Officially known as Township High School, it was erected between 1910 and 1911<ref name="archive.org"/> The old [[South Side School (Geneseo, Illinois)|South Side School]] was then used as an additional grade school for K-8 students until a new junior high was built  in 1954. South Side was then used as an administrative building until the 1960s when it was demolished to make room for a new district unit office. In the 1960s, Geneseo High School switched places with Geneseo Junior High and became J.D. Darnall Senior High School (until reverting to Geneseo High School in 2005).<ref name="III district/facts.html"/> The old "Township High School" was then used as Geneseo Junior High School until the 1990s when Geneseo Middle School was built next door to J.D. Darnall. Township High was subsequently demolished for additional space for the city park.