On Tuesday, June 2, St. Francis Xavier students dressed for a school day in 1895 and walked to the Little Traverse History ...

JACKSON TWP. ‒ The schoolroom was silent except for the sound of chalk on the slate boards as students worked a math problem. "(The sound) is almost soothing," Susan Gardner said as she observed from ...

In Michigan, more than 7,200 of the one-room schoolhouses once dotted the state. The students got some lessons that many schools don’t emphasize anymore. Many know about the one-room schoolhouses ...

Roger Patocka lives in Estherville. Over my career, I’ve designed sewage treatment facilities for thousands of people. I’ve always believed that relieving our individual bodies of metabolic wastes to ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on one-room schoolhouses: their history and their present status in rural communities. If you have a story about attending a one-room ...

The Elmhurst History Museum is celebrating the end of the school year with family-friendly festivities at the historic Churchville One-Room Schoolhouse where you can play old-fashioned games, take a ...

As a throwback ski destination, Alta thinks small, with a one-room public school to match. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Utah, a one-room ...

Kids who attend the one-room school near Parkman, Wyoming, still ride horses to their schoolhouse on the first and last days ...

Third-grade students in Jackson Local Schools visited a one-room schoolhouse to experience history firsthand. Students participated in lessons using slates, learned about the history of their township ...