Ramsey County History – Summer 1991: “Simpler Times, Obvious Virtues: The Story of the Little White School House on the Prairie”

Simpler Times, Obvious Virtues: The Story of the Little White School House on the Prairie

Author: Harlan Seyfer

In 1966 the Ramsey County Historical Society acquired a one-room schoolhouse for its Gibbs Farm Museum. It was built in 1882 in rural Chippewa County and used until January of 1965. The article traces the early history of Chippewa County school district #35, the building of the school, the relevant land transactions, and how RCHS acquired it. Accounts of this school come mostly in reminiscences from seven who taught there and fifteen former students. They recall the conditions, salaries, programs, games, daily schedule, chores, and lunches that made up a recently vanished way of schooling.

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