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5 unusual facts about One-room school


Associated Oil Company

Also in 1913, unfavorable commuting conditions prompted the Associated Oil Company to build a company town called the Avon Village and by 1920 consisted of 65 cottages, a one-room schoolhouse, worker's bunkhouse, a dining hall and a clubhouse that included an indoor swimming pool, auditorium and a two-lane bowling alley which serves today as the Refinery Museum.

Cheddleton

The old schoolhouse has been turned into a well established tea room, just down the road from St. Edward's.

Fort Kissimmee Cemetery

A tragedy happened in the community, around 1890, while building the school house near the current location of the cemetery.

Roosevelt Elementary School District

One of the community’s first schools was the Broadway School, a small, one-room brick building; the typical “little red school house.”

William Alcott

His works, which include a wide range of topics including educational reform, physical education, school house design, family life, and diet, are still widely cited today.


Deweyville, Utah

John C. Dewey directed many community activities, including the construction of a school house in 1869 and a Sunday school in 1872.


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Boyds, Maryland

It is a small, one room school house, containing a small number of desks, a blackboard, and an authentic potbelly stove, as well as a framed picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

George W. Ward

Ward was a product of Maryland education, unlike his predecessors, having attended a one-room school in Daisy, Maryland.

Globis University Graduate School of Management

Founded in 1992, Globis began as a one-room school with a set of translated Harvard Business School case studies.

Lake County Discovery Museum

In addition to a compilation of Lake County one-room school narratives, the museum also preserves a selection of materials relating to Zion, Illinois social and civic organization for minorities, the Booker T. Washington Club.

McGuffey Readers

McGuffey became a "roving" teacher at the age of 14, beginning with 48 students in a one-room school in Calcutta, Ohio and at a seminary in the town of Poland, Ohio.

McKownville, New York

They would donate land for the construction of the Great Western Turnpike built in 1799 (today Western Avenue), land for a local church (McKownville Methodist Church), and the original one room school house.

Perrinsville School

In 1937, the school was closed and replaced by another one-room school called Nankin Mills, built by Henry Ford two and half miles away.