Fort Branch Marlette High School, commonly known as Fort Branch High School, was a

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located in

Fort Branch Fort Branch was a fort built by the Confederate Army especially to defend against attacks from the Union Army along the Roanoke River in North Carolina. The fort was originally built in 1862 along Rainbow Banks in Martin County, southeast of Ham ...

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History

Fort Branch High School, established in 1922, was one of the three high schools under

South Gibson School Corporation The South Gibson School Corporation is the largest of the three public school governing institutions in both enrollment and territory covered in Gibson County, Indiana as well as one of the ten largest in enrollment in Southwestern Indiana. The ...

that merged into

Gibson Southern High School Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located in Fort Branch, Indiana. Academics Gibson Southern High School received the Indiana Four Star School Award for seven consecutive years. Athletics In 1974, Gibson Southern was original ...

in 1974. Like the current Fort Branch Community School, Fort Branch High School's mascot was the Twigs, and the school colors were black and gold. Fort Branch was part of the

Pocket Athletic Conference The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Most of the conference's 13 members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools currently located in Davi ...

shortly before the merging.Football - Ft. Branch 1972 Schedule/Results
AlmanacSports.com Retrieved on 2008-02-12. The building was then used as the Fort Branch Middle School (grades 6–8) until 1982, when the current Fort Branch Community School building was completed. The school was then subsequently demolished. The original Fort Branch High School gymnasium continues to be used for community functions.

References

Former Indiana High School Athletic Association members Fort Branch, Indiana Pocket Athletic Conference Defunct schools in Indiana Schools in Gibson County, Indiana Educational institutions disestablished in 1974 {{Indiana-school-stub