However, generations of American youth were educated in one-room schoolhouses. The small buildings stood along the roadways of rural America and early cities until they became obsolete.

In the olden days, one-room schoolhouses were common across the country, many of them simple wood-frame buildings painted white. Katy Young’s one-room school is going to be a dome.

Betsey DeLoache's interest in telling the history of one-room schoolhouses began with a photo she took of a dilapidated building on a prairie. DeLoache of Pierre used the photo as a reference ...

One-room schoolhouses used to be the lifeblood of rural American education. But over time, the number of them has dwindled. While such schools are becoming a rarity some still persist in many ...

Only 400 to 700 of the small schoolhouses used to educate mostly rural students still are in use, and many of those are threatened by shrinking enrollment and increasing costs. An Associated Press ...

Outside of school hours, the schoolhouses were used as places of worship, socialization, and entertainment. As schools consolidated, many of these buildings were torn down, moved to become ...

Stories of teaching and learning in one-room schoolhouses in the Upper Peninsula. (2002) One-room schoolhouses once peppered the countryside; now they are near extinction and only a few still ...

At one time, there were an estimated 2,600 rural schools in Montana. Beginning with the missions and gold camps, schoolhouses became essential community institutions and in the era of statehood ...