Identified as crowd outside the school on Decoration Day. The school, not seen here, was at 1000 East St., and opened in the early 1800s, closing in 2012. Decoration Day is better known today as Memorial Day.""The preferred name for the holiday gradually changed from ""Decoration Day"" to ""Memorial Day," which was first used in 1882. Memorial Day did not become the more common name until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day).