Southington native Newton Chalker, born in 1842, built, furnished, and donated Chalker High School to his community in 1907 after offering in 1905 to provide a high school and community library if residents voted to consolidate the township's one-room district schoolhouses and build a new elementary school in a central location. His commitment to improving education in the township likely grew from his own repeated interruptions in completing high school because of financial concerns and family obligations. After living in Southington Township until adulthood, he established a prosperous law and real estate practice in Akron. The Southington Township Centralized School campus, completed in 1907, originally included the Chalker High School building and a modest two-story brick elementary school, reflecting a statewide trend toward centralizing rural schools followed by most Trumbull County townships in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Designed in the Neo-Classical Revival style favored for public buildings, churches, and schools in the early twentieth century, Chalker High School showed Classical influence in its fluted columns and pedimented gable, resembling a Greek temple. A Civil War veteran, Chalker honored his fellow soldiers by placing the Civil War Monument between the school buildings and naming the grounds Monument Park in 1910. Chalker High School and the Civil War Monument were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, and Southington Township School was listed in 2012.