Iowa's Rural Schools | Here is the interactive map I created …
WEBHere is the interactive map I created showing locations of the 2,203 standing former rural school buildings in Iowa. In 1901 there were over 12,000 rural schools that dotted the Iowa landscape,...
Country Schools - Preservation Iowa
WEBOnce ubiquitous across Iowa’s landscape, one- two-room country schools are quickly disappearing. Although a few in Amish communities are still in educational use, nearly every historic country school in Iowa has been re-purposed.
Iowa One Room Schools
WEBJun 15, 2024 · Iowa One Room Schools. I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike).
One Room Schools In Iowa - wdmhs.org
WEBSo, let’s fast forward to today: we have 3 public one-room schools operating up in northern Iowa; Wapsie Valley and Jessen operate public, one-room schools for Amish children. But, non-Amish children could go to those schools.
Adair County Historical Museum - iowamuseums.org
WEBVisitors may tour the main museum building, an agricultural history building, a one-room country school, a small city barn, a railroad depot, a century-old country church, a recreational cabin, and the childhood home of former Iowa Governor George A. Wilson.
Iowa's country school Legacy - Iowa Farm Bureau
WEBAug 1, 2017 · At its peak, Iowa had 12,623 country schools, located every 2 miles to make it easier for farm families to send their kids to school. In Iowa’s country schoolhouses, students of every grade level were taught in one room, typically from kindergarten until eighth grade, Bloom explains.
Little schoolhouses: Part 1 of 3 in a special series studies one-room ...
WEBLittle schoolhouses: Part 1 of 3 in a special series studies one-room, country schools. A group portrait of seven rural students with their teacher standing alongside their one-room schoolhouse in Muscatine County in 1910. The clapboard sided building has three tall windows, as well as wooden steps and a porch that lead to a single-wide doorway ...
Iowa One Room Schools: Fairview #2, Corley - Blogger
WEBApr 28, 2011 · Iowa One Room Schools: Fairview #2, Corley. I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike).
Iowa One Room Schools: Correctionville School
WEBBuilt in 1872, it is the oldest brick schoolhouse in the county, third oldest in the state. By 1884 the population outgrew the building and it became used primarily by the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) and now used by veterans’ groups.
Harker's One-Room Schoolhouses - University of Iowa Press
WEBEducational historian Paul Theobald tells the story of the rise and fall of Iowa’s one-room schools, whose numbers fell from close to 15,000 in 1918 to only 1,100 in 1960, all of which had ceased to function as schools by 1980.
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