Tradition Continues: Town Center and City Hall Will Be Located at Hooper at Sullivan Roads Where ‘Central’ Has Been for 134 Years

The decision by the City of Central to build the Central City Hall at the corner of Hooper and Sullivan roads continues a tradition that goes back at least 134 years.
In fact, the land at that intersection was “Central” before there was a community called Central.
In the 1800’s when representatives of the small one-room school houses in the area debated where to put a new consolidated school, the issue was settled when land was donated for the new school at the intersection of Settlement and Canal roads. The people decided to name it the “Central School” simply because it was centrally located among the various one-room school houses in the area.
It wasn’t until about the 1930’s that people began referring to the area as “the Central area” or “the Central community.”
Settlement Road later became Sullivan Road, and Canal Road became Hooper Road.
The land was the site of a school from the 1880’s until 2013. For the past eight years, city leaders have been talking about making the historic site into City of Central’s Town Center based around a City Hall. With the decision by the City of Central and the Central Community School Board to locate City Hall there, it appears that Hooper at Sullivan roads will continue to be “Central” to the Central community for at least another generation or two.