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One teacher, several grades, and a single room. These photos show how that arrangement looked in American schoolhouses built from wood, stone, brick, and even prairie sod. Most are preserved originals. A historic photograph shows a Nebraska sod school with its pupils outside, and a living-history classroom shows what a log school looked like.

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District School at Old Sturbridge Village
District School at Old Sturbridge Village: These worn benches and desks came from a district school built around 1810 in…
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Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse
Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse: This limestone schoolhouse in Chase County, Kansas, was finished in 1882 and held its first…
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Redstone Schoolhouse
Redstone Schoolhouse: The red schoolhouse at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, is a reconstruction of a school…
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First School of De Smet
First School of De Smet: The plain white schoolhouse in De Smet, South Dakota, is where Laura and Carrie Ingalls went to…
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Prairie Center Sod Schoolhouse
Prairie Center Sod Schoolhouse: In this 1891 photograph, children gather outside the District 57 school in Custer County…
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Oldest Wooden School House, St. Augustine
Oldest Wooden School House, St. Augustine: Weathered clapboards, shutters, and a dormer frame the old schoolhouse on St…
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Scotch Settlement School
Scotch Settlement School: A bell tower tops this brick schoolhouse at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Built in…
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Mason Street Schoolhouse
Mason Street Schoolhouse: The long red schoolhouse in San Diego, California, opened in 1865. Mary Chase Walker taught…
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Freeman School
Freeman School: The brick Freeman School near Beatrice, Nebraska, taught children from 1872 until 1967. In 1902 it figured…
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Nicodemus School District No. 1
Nicodemus School District No. 1: The one-story school at Nicodemus, Kansas, was completed in 1918 after the earlier school…
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Historic Sykesville Colored Schoolhouse
Historic Sykesville Colored Schoolhouse: A desk and chair stand by the window in the restored classroom in Sykesville…
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Penns Park Octagonal Schoolhouse
Penns Park Octagonal Schoolhouse: Long benches follow the angled walls of this 1802 schoolhouse in Wrightstown Township…
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Sunset School
Sunset School: Slates sit on the desks and long benches face the chalkboards in this one-room school from Oregon’s Fort…
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Grafton Schoolhouse
Grafton Schoolhouse: The schoolhouse’s adobe walls pick up the colors of the Utah cliffs behind it. In 1886, Grafton…
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Beaver Meadow School
Beaver Meadow School: A tall stove and its flue still stand in the classroom of this 1922 school in Norwich, Vermont. After…
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Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse
Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse: A pointed wooden fence crosses the foreground of this view of the log school in the…
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Shady Grove School
Shady Grove School: The white frame schoolhouse stands on its original site in Louisa County, Virginia. It was completed in…
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Octagon Stone Schoolhouse
Octagon Stone Schoolhouse: This squat fieldstone building in South Canaan Township, Pennsylvania, is known as the Stone…
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Forest Grove School No. 5
Forest Grove School No. 5: The white schoolhouse near Bettendorf, Iowa, opened in 1873 and served children through eighth…
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Conifer Junction Schoolhouse
Conifer Junction Schoolhouse: This white schoolhouse in Conifer, Colorado, was built in 1923 for children in grades one…
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Forest Hill School
Forest Hill School: The white porch stands out against the brick walls of this one-room school near Martinsburg, West…

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