Union Center Consolidated School District 161, located in the Township of Island Grove, Gage County, Nebraska, was opened in the fall of 1917. One of the first rural consolidated school districts in the state of Nebraska, the school served its community for 35 years. Once the thread of a community's fabric, the school building gathered together its people for the festivities of bountiful harvests and sheltered them through devastating years of depression, drought and world war. So great an impression made on the lives of the children who walked those halls, they continue to find their way home for school reunions nearly five decades after the doors of the old school closed for the last time.

School Bells of the Heartland: The Story of Union Center is a history of the Township of Island Grove, 36 pages filled with stories and poetry of the people who lived and worked in the community. It features contributions by Robert Morris, Robert Mann, Lela Miller, Doris King, and George Riemann. The author, Jan Eloise Morris, is a 1970 graduate of Southern High School who spent her childhood in the community.

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