page_title: Geneseo, Illinois
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Geneseo, Illinois / History / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: The Old North Side school, Geneseo, Illinois circa 1900
context_page_description: Geneseo is a city in Henry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 6,586 at the 2010 census, up from 6,480 in 2000. Geneseo is 20 miles east of the Quad Cities, at the intersection of Interstate 80, U.S. Route 6 and Illinois Route 82.
  Geneseo is well known for its Victorian-style architecture, quaint downtown, and its successful high school football and music programs.
context_section_description: In 1909 the Township High School District was established and a new high school was needed for the growing town. It received a major expansion in 1932. Officially known as Township High School, it was erected between 1910 and 1911 on North Street next to the First Congregationalist Church and the Geneseo City Park. The old South Side School was then used as an additional grade school for K-8 students until the new junior high was built on Ogden Ave 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). 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 on Ogden Avenue. Township High was subsequently demolished for additional space for the city park. Today, Geneseo Community Unit School District 228 is the school district responsible for providing public education for children in the city. Today, Southwest Elementary, Northside Elementary, Millikin Elementary, and St. Malachy School provide the K-5 education in Geneseo.
caption: The old North Side School, Geneseo, Illinois circa 1900
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