Gone and soon to be forgotten……..

[billinohio]

There was a little one room school on a township road in the neighborhood. I never stopped to explore it, but the building always looked to be in surprisingly good condition, considering it had been abandoned for at least 75 years. The school was there, 2 outhouses and a little shed, probably a coal shed. The lot growed up with soft maple trees, one of which got old, died, and leaned on the building. 
well, last week they demolished a little house and barn on that farm and then they did the school. It is currently in a pile.
I remember seeing people there, probably a school reunion event in the mid 1960s.
I don’t know of anyone living that attended the school.
There we’re little schools like this, maybe 2, 3, 4 miles apart into the 1920s when they started consolidating school districts and got transportation to pick the kids up.
M any years ago there was a school on our farm, and it was replaced with a slightly larger school right up the road. Evidentally, the little school in Fort Ancient was consolidated into that school at that time. I knew an old guy that rode the Model T bus back then. My uncles girl friend did her student teaching there, and that old fella remembered her.

Some guys hunted our place with metal detectors and found a few trinkets in the area of the long gone school, a couple big Pennys and some civil war era buttons, mighta even found traces of a little cottage for the teacher.

[Angle iron]

Grew up in rural South Dakota. Went to a one room school 1-6, 7-8 was a two room consolidated school. This was in the mid 60's. The township if I recall was 6 miles square with a school pretty well centered in 3 mile squares. So four schools total, the enrollment in the school just west of us fell so low it was decided to join two of them in a closed up Catholic church. Not long after that the whole township consolidated with the nearby town school.I graduated 8th grade in 68 I think. Not many of those schools left even then.

[Erstwhile]

My Dad was born in the Schoolhouse on the Van Plantation located on the Brazos. (That plantation is now under the Brazos.  ... fresh water supply for Dow Chemical.) For the most part each Plantation had a School.

[rustyfarmall]

I never attended a country school, but my wife did as well as several of my cousins. I do not know of any country schools that are still standing, but I know where at least 6 were located.

[Erstwhile]

Rusty, you better fix that typo before she reads it.

[rustyfarmall]

Feb 25, 2024 6:32:37 GMT -6 Erstwhile said:

Rusty, you better fix that typo before she reads it.

OOPS!!! Fixed. Can't accuse her of being wide. I am the WIDE one.

[RedDave]

I didn't attend a one room school, but two of my older sisters did. Being the youngest (Mom and Dad kept at it until they got it right ), the one room public schools were gone, merged into one large school by the time I started school.

There still quite a few one room schools in the area however.  The Amish still have them and they only go until they graduate 8th grade.

[504]

No one room schools, but we did have two classes in the same room.1&2,3&4,5&6,7&8