Owensville High School (Indiana)

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Owensville High School, also known as Owensville Montgomery Township High School, was a public K-12 school in Owensville, Indiana. It was part of the South Gibson School Corporation and merged into Gibson Southern High School in 1974. In 1973, the school had 226 students. The colors were black and gold, and the mascot was the Kickapoos (often referred to as The Chief Kick).

Owensville was a founding member of the Pocket Athletic Conference in 1938; its conference membership later moved to Gibson Southern High School along with Fort Branch and Haubstadt high schools. The school had Indiana’s first high school gymnasium with a glass backboard, and a backboard from that gym is now in the Indiana High School Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle.

After consolidation, the building served as Owensville Community School until the new facility opened in 1992, at which point the old building was demolished. The gym remains as the REH Center. The school was located at the southwest corner of Walnut and Mill Streets in Owensville.