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The Orange
Blossom School System was organized about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of Rocky in 1902. The town built a new school in 1907. The Works Progress Administration built another school building in the late 1930s. However, the 1930 census marked the highest point of Rocky's growth, so no more
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