The Daily News on May 28, 1974, reported that the recently closed High Street School might be sold to the city with plans to replace the Reservoir Hill Recreation Center, which had burned the year before.

The school was built in 1954 specifically for African American students prior to desegregation. The school was closed because of low attendance rates, and the students moved to other elementary schools. The city bought the school from the school board later in 1974 and turned it into a Senior Center and Head Start Center.

— “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.