Frank Gilbert, born in Fairview, Idaho, in 1894, to Daniel and Amelia Gilbert, attended the Oneida Stake Academy and played basketball for the school’s team. Following is the text from an article that appeared in the Box Elder News on March 16, 1911. Gilbert would have been almost 16-years-old, and may have played in this […]

Recently donated to the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation is this teacher’s certificate issued to Dimon Bodily in 1915 by the Franklin County School Superintendent Henry Simpson. Bodily was certified to teach for one year in the areas of reading, language, arithmetic, history and geography.

On the back of this photo it says “Probably ‘O’ Day of 1914 or 15. (On northeast corner of the Academy in shown the old wooden stairway up to the auditorium.)” Also in the picture one can see the Nelson Gymnasium and the science building. Photo donated by Basil and Randy Haberstick.

Using federal funds administered by the Idaho Transportation Department, the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation is having front stairs poured for the historic Oneida Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho.  The current design of the new stairs follows the academy’s original design with modern amenities. It will look like the original, but a heating pad will help […]

Newell Hart was a Preston native, a free spirit and an avid chronicler of an era slipping into the past. Born on Feb. 21, 1913, he was the son of Arthur William and Evadyna Henderson Hart. Newell and his wife, Ruth, spent many years in California, but eventually returned to Preston. Together they pulled together […]