The Florence School is located at 7902 North 36th Street in the

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neighborhood of

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, United States. The first school in the Florence area was built in the 1840s, in what was then called

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by Mormon pioneers. The present-day Florence Elementary School was started in the late 1850s after the town of Florence was founded.

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As early as 1868 the Florence School was used as a

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in Nebraska state elections. A new building was erected in 1889 at the base of the bluff overlooking the Missouri River. In the 1890s, Julia Krisl became one of the first

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principals in the city of Omaha while at the Florence School. The Florence School building was replaced in 1964. Florence B. Reynolds, a principal at the school in the 1920s, was a published scholar who examined

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with teachers.Nebraska State Education Association. (1929) ''The Nebraska Educational Journal.'' p 133.

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