Michigan Schoolhouse
Up at the base of the thumb of Michigan sits this old schoolhouse: District 2, 1896 per the date plate above the door.
Farming country then; farming country now.
Certainly a different world than metro Detroit.
That’s all I know of this structure.
I wonder what happened to the bell. I wonder what it’s used for now – it’s in pretty good shape.
I passed by and took the photo.
Then I drove on.
Back then they taught children how to think, how to use common sense. Since then the unions wormed their way in and formed the “teachers union”. Common sense is gone. Thinking is twisted.
I have a few old textbooks from that era: McGuffey Readers and the like. In those days, an 8th grade education was considered “educated” and judging from those texts, I can see how they had that opinion. I doubt a majority of today’s college students could pass a 1900 8th grade class.
There is actually a Michigan One Room School House Society that has inventoried and documented 1000s of these old school buildings. They might be able to tell you where the bell went.
Surprised it hasn’t been made into a museum.
How gorgeous.
They are all over Northern Indiana also. Some repurposed and others abandoned to the weather.