The Steel Hill Community was named for an early day buffalo hunter named Steel who camped and was buried, on a hill on the former Elmer and Lee Oma Cross farm. Therefore, the community and school were named Steel Hill.
In 1916 the Swenson Land and Cattle Company deeded land to be used for the construction of a one-room school about 7 miles southeast of Spur.
In 1921 this was converted into a teachers' home. A new, two-room school was built with a cloakroom for coats and lunches. This required two teachers, a woman for the "little" room and usually a man for the "big" room. A school bus carried high school students into Spur.
Trustees consisted one men of the community and a County Superintendent would visit the school occasionally. One of the early day County Superintendents was Madge Twadell in her big hats and she held the students spellbound as she dramatized a ghost story. We were always happy to see her come to visit.
There was the usual playground equipment, baseball games with nearby community schools, school plays and picnics at Carlisle Springs.
Like other community schools, Steel Hill consolidated with Spur schools in March of 1937. All children were bussed into Spur. The buildings and playground equipment were moved into Spur and used by the Schools.
W.L. Marshall and his father helped to build the Steel Hill School House. The school house was used as a church also. It was built in 1911. and named after the Steel Hill Mountains.
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