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'''Windsor High School''', home of the Owls, is located on Windsor Harbor Road in [[Imperial, Missouri]] and is part of the [[Windsor C-1 School District]] in [[Jefferson County, Missouri|Jefferson County]]. |
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Windsor High School was named after a sunken Civil War gun-boat that was docked in the Mississippi River in Kimmswick, MO. The "gun-boat" has never been recorded in military or navel records and could have been used as a decoy to ward off Confederate raiding parties. This ship was sunk in the late 1800's during an ice storm. The ice crushed the boat from both sides letting out a thunderous crack that woke a man living in Kimmswick who recorded the event in the local newspaper much later in his life. The boat only had the name the locals gave it and that was "Windsor". |
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Located in an unincorporated area of Northern Jefferson County, the Windsor School District is a bed room community made up of several small towns and subdivisions. The area associated with Windsor includes the towns of Kimmswick, Imperial, and Barnhart. |
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According to the early history of Windsor, the school publication was named the Captain's Log, referring to the old gun-boat, however that name has been changed to "The Vision". The gun-boat can still be seen in the Mississippi when the river is low. |
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The area has grown from a small rural district to a fairly large suburban type district of over 3,000 students. |
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Windsor also has an amazing boys soccer team. which maybe the best in the state....maybe. |
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The district does not have an industrial or manufacturing base, so most of the patrons travel to work. The income and educational level of our patrons is high compared to most of the districts in Jefferson County. |
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This district was organized on February 25, 1922 at a meeting held in the White School. At this meeting it was decided by a vote of 205 to 82 that the districts of Kimmswick, White, Sulphur Springs, and Barnhart along with small parts of the Moss Hollow and Seckman districts be organized into one district. It was to be known as Consolidated District Number One of Jefferson County Missouri. |
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[[Category:High schools in Missouri]] |
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The school was named Windsor School at a meeting of the Board of Directors on December 12, 1938 in honor of the Gunboat Windsor, which sank during the Civil War and now lies in the Mississippi River at Windsor Harbor. |
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The original Windsor School went only to the eighth grade. After completing their education here, the students went on to High School at the neighboring districts of Herculaneum or Crystal City. |
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The Windsor District includes 3 Elementary Schools, a 5th grade center, a Middle School, and a High School. |
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1) Windsor/Kimmswick Facility houses the Kindergarten for Windsor Elementary. It is located in Kimmswick on 5th street. It was the Old St. Joseph’s School. |
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2) Windsor Elementary houses the 1st and 2nd grades and is located on the main campus facing Highway 67. |
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3) Freer Elementary houses the Kindergarten through 4th grade and is located in the Village of Jefferson. It was named for long time Superintendent James E. Freer. |
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4) The Fifth Grade Center is on the main campus just south of Windsor Elementary. It contains 3rd through 5th grades. It is the oldest building. The WPA built it in 1939. |
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5) The Middle School is the original Windsor High School. (The first graduating class was in 1970.) |
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6) The High School is located just east of the Middle School. |
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Theodore Kimm, a native of Brunswick, Germany, laid out the Town of Kimmswick in 1859. He named the town after himself and chose the suffix “wick” which is Saxon origin, meaning bay, village, or station. The site he chose had the advantages of both river and railroad transportation and proximity to St. Louis. Following the Civil War, this early German community prospered with new businesses, saloons, and hotels. It had a flour mill, a brewery, several greenhouses, floral gardens, a brick kiln to produce bricks for the town, a lumber yard, a post office, a tin shop, a general store, a bank, a butcher shop, a shoe store, a barber shop and the large three-story brick National Hotel on Front Street. People were attracted to the mineral springs north of the town. It is interesting to visit the Kimm cemetery located inside the city. Kimmswick was a booming port town at one time. |
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Imperial was once known as West Kimmswick. The name changed during World War I, when someone opened a business called the Imperial Clock Works. Imperial was laid out in 1905. |
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Barnhart located just to the south of Imperial was named for C.L. Barnhart in the early 1900’s. At one time it was a tourist attraction. The Kohler City store with the old man in the rocking chair outside the building brought in tourists from all over to see such things as used false teeth and reading glasses for sale. When Interstate 55 went through, Barnhart became less prosperous. |
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Revision as of 03:35, 28 February 2009
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| Type | Public |
| Principal | Dr. Susan Jackson |
| Enrollment | 974 [1] |
| Color(s) | brown and gold |
| Website | Windsor High School Website |
Windsor High School, home of the Owls, is located on Windsor Harbor Road in Imperial, Missouri and is part of the Windsor C-1 School District in Jefferson County.
Windsor High School was named after a sunken Civil War gun-boat that was docked in the Mississippi River in Kimmswick, MO. The "gun-boat" has never been recorded in military or navel records and could have been used as a decoy to ward off Confederate raiding parties. This ship was sunk in the late 1800's during an ice storm. The ice crushed the boat from both sides letting out a thunderous crack that woke a man living in Kimmswick who recorded the event in the local newspaper much later in his life. The boat only had the name the locals gave it and that was "Windsor".
According to the early history of Windsor, the school publication was named the Captain's Log, referring to the old gun-boat, however that name has been changed to "The Vision". The gun-boat can still be seen in the Mississippi when the river is low.
Windsor also has an amazing boys soccer team. which maybe the best in the state....maybe.
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