The school, Pleasant Hill, appears to have been located on the south side of Hwy 66 between WCR 5 & 3 on a slight rise, hence its name. I have several descriptions of where the school once stood, but the most credible comes from Vera Turner Berg's account. She, and her granddaughter, Alice York, says that the school was located directly across the road from the Turner farm. While the original farmhouse burned down, there is still a brick, ranch style home on the original home site. Directly across the road, you can still see some of the old cement foundation pieces of the school next to an old silage pit. The Pleasant Hill School was consolidated into the Mead School District in 1950.

Hazel Webb Daiziel attended Pleasant Hill School as a young girl and describes it in her book, "Joyful Childhood Memories of A Pioneer Woman (Some not so joyful) published in 1988 by her children.

"Our country schoolhouse was a two-room building with a little hall in front and doors leading into the separate rooms. Hooks, high and low, were placed on one side for our coats and caps. We left our lunch buckets and overshoes on the floor under our coats. The bell rang in the morning at nine o'clock, and we were dismissed at four with an hour for lunch at noon.

Our school had one or two entertainments a year --always one at Christmas. One teacher was clever and wrote verses which were set to music and were sung by different groups dressed in costumes appropriate to the words.

This was a graded school with two teachers -- one for the primary grades and one for the others. We had good teachers and went on to high school in Longmont (Boulder County) without any difficulty."

Liberty Hall Grange - was named by Millie Kerby Webb. The community soon took the name "Liberty" from the name of the grange and it is still known by that name today. The old brown brick school building with a garden level basement on the northeast corner of WCR 5 & Hwy 66,  is the current home of the grange. The grange meetings were usually followed by a dance and provided many a young couple a chance to meet and court.

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Tom Kiteley whose family farmed in the Liberty Hall area since 1868 gives the following information:

Further information that I have been able to glean. The railroad came through in 1906 and established a beet dump where the railroad crosses what is now Hwy. 66. According to Daiziel's book, the grange was established around the turn of the 20th century. Daiziel says that her mother named the grange Liberty Hall and that the community took its name Liberty from the hall's name. So now with Tom Kiteley's explanation, we have two different versions of how the community was named. I tend to go with Daiziel's version since Liberty had a column in the Longmont Ledger before the railroad came through.

Hazel Daiziel describes the interior of the hall thus:

"In the winter, socials were moved into a hall built by the people of the community. It had a cook stove, table and coarse dishes in a kitchen on one end of the hall.  Mother named the hall 'Liberty Hall' and the community is still called 'Liberty.' There in addition to other activities, the Ladies Aid had oyster and chicken pie suppers.

"Later I met the man I married in Liberty Hall. There was a Grange meeting followed by a dance. The Grange activities were a preliminary to starting a farmers' organization which grew into a nation-wide affair.

After the turn of the century and after the families of the first settlers had grown up, many of the social get-togethers such as card parties and dances, especially barn dances, revolved around the Grange" (pg. 51, 52).