Miss Pike saved this article from October 1939 – lots going on in Mannsville Central that month — especially with the FFA! Read on!
Category: Local History
Another clipping from Ms. Pike’s scrapbook — Mannsville Grange had been planning this event and it looks like they had a good turnout!
Another clipping from the 1939-41 scrapbook kept by former Mannsville School teacher Miss Marion Pike. Ms. Pike’s relatives donated the scrapbook to the library in December 2022. It is on display in the library and visitors are free to go though it and maybe find a little piece of their own family history.
This clipping was found in a 1939-41 scrapbook kept by former Mannsville School teacher Miss Marion Pike. Ms. Pike’s relatives donated the scrapbook to the library in December 2022. It is on display in the library and visitors are free to go though it and maybe find a little piece of their own family history.
A clipping from the scrapbook kept by Mannsville High School history teacher Miss Marion Pike. Ms. Pike taught at Mannsville from 1936 until about 1944. Her scrapbook for those years was donated to Mannsville Free Library by her cousin Ms. Lydia L. Birr of Hilton, New York. Underneath this clipping Ms. Pike noted that Oren Austen, was her student in 1937 and was a “nice kid.”
Local History Lives Here

If you have family members who attended Mannsville School during the years 1939 to 1941 you will be especially interested in this!
Mannsville Library recently received a box full of local history in the mail. The history came in the form of a scrapbook kept by Mannsville School’s World War II-era history teacher and librarian, Miss Marion S. Pike. Miss Pike kept hundreds of news articles, school programs, photos, and other memorabilia all pertaining to her students, other village members, and moments in Mannsville life during the years 1939-1941.
Also included in the package was a bundle of photos of local WWII servicemembers. Unfortunately, many of the photos have no names on the back, but we feel sure they are the grand- and great-grandparents of some of today’s Mannsville area residents.
We will soon begin posting images of the newspaper articles and photos on the website and Facebook page. As we identify the servicemembers’ photos, we will use the North Country Library System’s Fold3 database, available here in the library, to learn more about each individual’s military service.