Ridge Elementary School. Source: Scrapbooks and photographs, Wood Lane School, 1955-1978. On loan from the Wood County Board for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

These scrapbooks document the founding and operations of educational programs for developmentally disabled children in Wood County. Included are photographs of the first class held in Ridge Elementary School in 1955, a station wagon donated to the school by Carl Schmidt of Perrysburg that was used to provide transportation that year, and the new school’s groundbreaking in 1970. Also included is a parents’ newsletter titled Woody’s Goodies, which was published beginning in 1966.