KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - The floorboards creaked as Nora Lindner stepped into a one-room schoolhouse at the Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney. The retired teacher remembers attending a country school ...
For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities. Kids focused on learning basics like reading, ...
HUNTINGTON — The Union School, often called the “Punkin Center School,” was a one-room schoolhouse on Guyan Creek Road near Glenwood, serving students in grades one through eight from 1899 to 1955. In ...
QUINCY — A lifelong love of learning spurs Jane and Paul Moody to teach others about the story of education in Adams County. A series of historic school tours, tied to the Adams County Bicentennial, ...
I am one of a few remaining people who briefly attended a one-room school. There were two within a couple of miles of our old farmhouse in Glenwood. School 15 was near the corner of Crump and Pratham ...