School District No. 10
School District No. 10, Carrington Township, was organized November 13, 1883 under the direction of County Superintendent H.W. Cornish. A.D. Parker was named clerk, Archibald Miller, treasurer, and Lemonte Durbon, director.
The first school was built on Section 19 in the area where the grade school is now located. This school known as Number one was first taught in December 1883 by Lucy Mitchell. In 1885 the district bonded for $2500 to build a two-room school. In 1892 an addition was built on.
In about 1887 school classes were held in a small building on the Adam Bond farm on the northeast corner of Northwest 1/4 of section 26. The first teacher in this school was Eve Flater of New Rockford and the only pupils were Bessie, Fern, and Crayton Holcomb. A school was built in 1889 and it was known as school No. 2. This school burned about 1891. While a new building was being constructed school was held at the Ed Hanna house located down the road a little way from the Holcombs. The new school was finished in 1894. This building was later moved to Carrington.
School No. 3 known as the Shiflet School was first built about 1897 on section 11. It was rebuilt in the summer of 1907. This school was later sold to Rose Hill Township where it was used until reorganization. It was then moved to the Fairgrounds where it stands at the present time.
School District No. 10 was reorganized into a Special School District June 5, 1902. Present board members are Jacqueline Burbank, Howard Miller, Ernest Steinman, Illa Zink, and Wayne Loosen. Herman Doeling is the clerk.
The town of Carrington was established in 1882 at the junction of the Devils Lake and Mouse River branches of the Jamestown Northern Railway now the Northern Pacific. It was named for M.D. Carrington, vice‑president and general manager of the Carrington‑Casey Land Company In the summer of 1882 this company for $168,380 bought some 30,000 acres of railroad land in this area and in Wells county and operated a bonanza farm south of the town site. They platted, named and gave sites for a public park, school, churches and the courthouse. The post office was established February 15, 1883 with Arthur B. Halsey, postmaster. The village was incorporated as a City in 1900.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 191