My first experience with a one-room schoolhouse is from very early in life and somewhat unique. The first house I remember living in was a large, white, four-square home in Central Illinois in the ...

In Evergreen, Colorado, the old one-room school that has sat on the grounds of Wilmot Elementary for decades has now moved on down the road to Marshdale. The school, built in 1877, is believed to be ...

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 ...

The one-room school let her hear the older students’ lessons, which helped Mohler learn enough to skip the second grade. Until about 50 years ago, most Lancaster County residents learned in one-room ...

My mother-in-law, Elvina, attended a country school. I have written the following story based upon her handwritten notes: On her first day of school in 1928, she felt afraid. What was it going to be ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The urban bustle outside doesn’t exactly align with Little House on the Prairie. But in the heart of Minneapolis there exists a throwback. “Good Morning, everybody,” Kaiti Brown says as ...

Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton, started up escape rooms to engage people of all ages. Courtesy photos One Johnson County Museum is providing a unique way to engage with ...

Organizers are now showing off a recently restored schoolhouse in Centre County that has a direct tie to the county’s best-known educational institution. Just two miles from Penn State is the little ...

In historical parks across the U.S., tiny museum-piece schoolhouses, with belfry, potbellied stove and initial-scarred benches, set city-bred youngsters to speculating about how “cute” the one-teacher ...

Prudence Island has the only operational one-room schoolhouse in Rhode Island, but no students are enrolled this year. A single senior graduated from the Prudence Island School last year, and the ...

Gladys Mohler vividly remembers her first school. When she set off for class in the fall of 1932, the Excelsior School was just over the fence from her parents’ farm in Manor Township. Her dog would ...