Gahanna Lincoln High School graduates are raising money for their alumni association by selling 2,000 bricks from the school's former buildings on North Hamilton Road.
Demolition has been underway for weeks for the older buildings that were called A, B and C.
Nichole Butler, a 2006 Gahanna Lincoln graduate, is on the board of the alumni association which began last year. Butler said about $1,200 has already been raised online, but there's no specific charge for a brick.
"The brick sale is really to help us kickstart that process of marketing ourselves, but also connecting current students and fellow alumni with each other,” Butler said.
Butler explained that the Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools' Board of Education budgeted to pay for the special cleanup for saving the bricks.
"There's a special process that has to happen to make full bricks come out of this and be cleaned and prepped for people to take them,” Butler said. “So the mortar, you know, some of the mortars cleaned off. They're actually full-size bricks."
Once demolition is complete, the site will become an expanded parking lot.
“There's just so many memories as an alumnus, but also just that like I valued that time,” Butler said. “Maybe I didn't appreciate it as much when I was there, but now that I'm gone, those are the best days that you really have the time to kind of grow.”
Gahanna Lincoln's new $200 million high school, which was built next door to the old school, opened in January.
Buyers for the bricks can pick them up Saturday morning behind Blacklick Elementary School from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m or on July 11 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
