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.
The old schoolhouse has been turned into a well established tea room, just down the road from St. Edward's.
A tragedy happened in the community, around 1890, while building the school house near the current location of the cemetery.
One of the community’s first schools was the Broadway School, a small, one-room brick building; the typical “little red school house.”
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.
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John C. Dewey directed many community activities, including the construction of a school house in 1869 and a Sunday school in 1872.
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.
Ward was a product of Maryland education, unlike his predecessors, having attended a one-room school in Daisy, Maryland.
Founded in 1992, Globis began as a one-room school with a set of translated Harvard Business School case studies.
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 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.
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.
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.