The first elementary school in Rhode Island opened 300 years ago. Here's where it is
Here's the story of the first elementary school in Rhode Island. According to the Portsmouth Historical Society, the site of ...
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Efforts being made to preserve old Maryland segregated, all-Black schoolhouses
BALTIMORE -- The keys to unlocking the doors of Black history may not rest in the pages of school history books, but rather in segregated schools made for Black children. In the decades between ...
School’s out – but building may be in luck (copy)
Driving around Carver County with nothing but an 1880 map, Lou Longhenry kept to his mission: Find historic one-room schoolhouses. Results? “Not too many,” the San Francisco Township retiree said, ...
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Marshall Center School preserves history of education in Iowa
At one point, Iowa had more than 12,000 one-room rural schoolhouses operating across the state. Now, only three remain in use ...