The hero of On The Road was Dean Moriarity, in real life, Neal Cassady. Did the name inspiration come from here, only a block away from his house? The school building is obviously much newer than late forties, probably less than ten years old as a guess. BUT, maybe the Deanes lived here on their farm in the late forties, or there was a now demolished older school, or...... Or maybe a heck of a coincidence!