Saturday, July 6, 2024

COUNTY SEPARATION

 IN THE NEAR FUTURE I WILL MAKE A BLOG FOR EACH COUNTY; RIGHT NOW THEY ARE ALL SPORADICALLY PLACED THROUGHOUT THIS BLOG. WITH OVER 800 SCHOOLS AND OVER 2000 PHOTOGRAPHS, THIS IS A VERY TIMELY ORDEAL, SO IT WILL TAKE A FEW MORE MONTHS. RIGHT NOW IF YOU SRE SEARCHING FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS IN ONE SPECIFIC COUNTY, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH NUMEROUS OLDER POSTS.

ONCE THE COUNTY BLOG IS MADE, THE POSTS FOR THIS COUNTY WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE OHIO MAIN SCHOOL PHOTOBLOG....


The following county sites are now up...




















Thursday, December 17, 2020

OHIO SCHOOLS

  1. MOHAWK SCHOOL                                           CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
  2. GRIESEZ SCHOOL                                            SHELBY COUNTY
  3. HOPEWELL SCHOOL                                        CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
  4. UNION SCHOOL                                                 SHELBY COUNTY
  5. WALK UP SCHOOL                                            SHELBY COUNTY
  6. BUZZARD'S GLORY SCHOOL                           DARKE COUNTY
  7. OAKLAND SCHOOL                                           DARKE COUNTY
  8. WILLOWDELL SCHOOL                                     DARKE COUNTY
  9. BULCHER SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY
  10. UNION SCHOOL                                                  DARKE COUNTY
  11. GOFENNA SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY
  12. COPPESS SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY
  13. CANYON SCHOOL                                              MIAMI COUNTY
  14. SCHOOL # 3                                                         MIAMI COUNTY
  15. UNION SCHOOL                                                  MIAMI COUNTY
  16. MIDNIGHT SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY
  17. CIRCLE HILL SCHOOL                                        MIAMI COUNTY
  18. THOMPSON SCHOOL                                          MIAMI COUNTY
  19. SCHOOL # 5                                                          MIAMI COUNTY
  20. ORAN SCHOOL                                                    SHELBY COUNTY
  21. SOCKUM SCHOOL                                               DARKE COUNTY
  22. EXCELSIOR SCHOOL                                          DARKE COUNTY
  23. RUES SCHOOL                                                     DARKE COUNTY
  24. SCHOOL # 5                                                          MIAMI COUNTY
  25. SCHOOL # 12                                                        MIAMI COUNTY
  26. WEST GROVE SCHOOL                                       DARKE COUNTY
  27. ASHLAND SCHOOL                                              MIAMI COUNTY
  28. BUNKER FLAT SCHOOL                                      SHELBY COUNTY
  29. POPLAR KNOB                                                     SHELBY COUNTY
  30. BECK SCHOOL                                                     SHELBY COUNTY
  31. WEAVER SCHOOL                                                SHELBY COUNTY  
  32. TWIN OAK SCHOOL                                             SHELBY COUNTY
  33. RUMLEY SCHOOL                                                SHELBY COUNTY
  34. GRASS CREEK SCHOOL                                     SHELBY COUNTY
  35. SCHOOL # 6                                                           AUGLAIZE COUNTY
  36. SCHOOL # 6                                                           AUGLAIZE COUNTY 
  37. WEIMERT SCHOOL                                               AUGLAIZE COUNTY
  38. SCHOOL # 5                                                           AUGLAIZE COUNTY
  39. BIG WOODS SCHOOL                                          SHELBY COUNTY
  40. GEORGETOWN SCHOOL                                     SHELBY COUNTY
  41. NEW PALESTINE SCHOOL                                   SHELBY COUNTY      
  42. SUNNYSIDE SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY 
  43. YOUNGS SCHOOL                                                  PREBLE COUNTY      
  44. DRY RUN SCHOOL                                                 PREBLE COUNTY     
  45. FAMOUS SCHOOL                                                  MIAMI COUNTY      
  46. KNICK SCHOOL                                                      DARKE COUNTY     
  47. WAKEFIELD SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY    
  48. LONGTOWN SCHOOL                                            DARKE COUNTY   
  49. TAMPICO SCHOOL                                                 DARKE COUNTY
  50. ROCKPORT SCHOOL                                             DARKE COUNTY
  51. CENTER SCHOOL                                                   DARKE COUNTY
  52. CECIL SCHOOL                                                       SHELBY COUNTY
  53. HUFFMAN SCHOOL                                                SHELBY COUNTY
  54. SUGAR VALLEY SCHOOL                                      DARKE COUNTY
  55. HAGENBAUGH SCHOOL                                        CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
  56. SMITH SCHOOL                                                       CHAMPAIGN COUNTY      
  57. MCCLURE SCHOOL                                                SHELBY COUNTY
  58. HOPKINS SCHOOL                                                  SHELBY COUNTY
  59. HAWVER SCHOOL                                                   SHELBY COUNTY
  60. ELM CORNER SCHOOL                                          SHELBY COUNTY
  61. BLUMHORST SCHOOL                                           SHELBY COUNTY
  62. METZ SCHOOL                                                        SHELBY COUNTY
  63. VAN BUREN SCHOOL                                             SHELBY COUNTY
  64. DEITERS SCHOOL                                                   SHELBY COUNTY
  65. HESS SCHOOL                                                         CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
  66. FRANTZ SCHOOL                                                     DARKE COUNTY
  67. HICKORY PARK SCHOOL                                        DARKE COUNTY
  68. RAKESTRAW SCHOOL                                            MIAMI COUNTY
  69. LOXLEY SCHOOL                                                     DARKE COUNTY
  70. STELVIDEO SCHOOL                                               DARKE COUNTY
  71. BUZZARD'S GLORY                                                 DARKE COUNTY
  72. BRYSON SCHOOL                                                    DARKE COUNTY
  73. JOINT DISTRICT 19 SCHOOL                                  DARKE COUNTY
  74. BERRY SCHOOL                                                       DARKE COUNTY
  75. BUNKUM SCHOOL                                                   DARKE COUNTY
  76. DELISLE SCHOOL                                                    DARKE COUNTY
  77. SHERMAN SCHOOL                                                 SHELBY COUNTY
  78. HIGGINS SCHOOL                                                    SHELBY COUNTY
  79. PROCTOR SCHOOL                                                 SHELBY COUNTY
  80. BURTON SCHOOL                                                    SHELBY COUNTY
  81. WEISKETTLE SCHOOL                                            SHELBY COUNTY
  82. WEST JEFFERSON SCHOOL                                  SHELBY COUNTY
  83. LIBERTY SCHOOL                                                    SHELBY COUNTY
  84. BLAKER SCHOOL                                                     MIAMI COUNTY
  85. BUCK CREEK SCHOOL                                            CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
  86. POPLAR RIDGE SCHOOL                                         DARKE COUNTY
  87. COLES SCHOOL                                                        DARKE COUNTY
  88. HAZEL DALE SCHOOL                                              DARKE COUNTY
  89. KELSEY SCHOOL                                                       DARKE COUNTY
  90. SCHOOL # 8                                                                DARKE COUNTY
  91. OAK GROVE SCHOOL                                                DARKE COUNTY

THIS POST-UNDER CONSTRUCTION   SOON THESE SCHOOLS WILL HAVE LINKS TO THIER OWN POSTS

Sunday, August 9, 2020

SCHOOL # 4/WYANDOT COUNTY








                                                                              ANTRIM TOWNSHIP #4

Saturday, February 27, 2016

SCHOOL #6 ERIE COUNTY







                                                             MARGARETTA TOWNSHIP  #6

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Friday, September 6, 2013

ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES

We still see them. They dot the rural landscape of  Ohio. But today most exist in a state of disrepair, silently crumbling beside a country road, buried in the underbrush. Some have been converted into homes, garages, township storage buildings, and grange halls. Yet their very presence evokes nostalgia for many who view them as symbols of a simpler time. “One-room schoolhouses,” according to educator Fred Schroeder, “are cherished symbols of an all but vanished lifestyle: independent, family-centered, and consciously tied to the soil.”

Uniform in design with bell towers and tall, narrow windows and often constructed of brick, these American icons are in fact third-generation structures built in the 1870s and 1880s and later. Their predecessors were generally made of logs with window openings covered with greased paper, and floors of dirt or puncheon. Others were wood-framed with clapboard siding and cedar shingles. Sadly, most of these wooden ones have long ago disappeared.

If the architectural styles of the early one-room schoolhouses varied over time, their geographic location on Ohio’s rural landscape did not. This was spelled out in the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1785. Profits from the sale or leasing of the lands of section 16 in each township of the Northwest Territory were set aside to finance public schools. But sales were slow due to the abundance of land available.

Laws establishing township school districts, inspectors, school committees, and a land valuation tax system soon remedied the situation, setting off a building boom of one-room schoolhouses across the state. So that no student would be forced to walk more than a mile, district boundaries were required to be no more than 4 square miles with the schoolhouse located near the geographic center.

Township trustees and their school committees oversaw the maintenance of the buildings, use of supplies, and expenses incurred. They kept track of the names, ages, and number of students in their districts. They hired, fired, and paid teachers as well as arranged for their room and board. All the while, they monitored the teaching abilities, character, and personal conduct of their educators.

Now there are probably only about a little over a  thousand of these buildings that still exist throughout Ohio, out of the approximate 10,000 that were originally built. A lot of the surviving ones were made into private homes, while others were transitioned into small barns. This site shows how the remainder of these schools look like today. Only the homes which still have the majority of the frame and foundation are pictured. I have only completed part of the Ohio search so far, so this site will be an ongoing process. I welcome any information which would help me provide more schoolhouses on this site.

ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES

MY DEEPEST APPRECIATION GOES OUT TO THE MANY WHO HAVE HELPED ME WITH THIS ENDEAVOR. THE DOZENS OF INDIVIDUALS, LIBRARIANS, HISTORIANS, SCHOOL/HOME OCCUPANTS, MAIL PERSONS, NEIGHBORS, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE MADE THIS MORE OF A JOY THAN A CHORE. AND, GIVING ME SO MUCH VALUABLE INPUT WHICH HAS HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY. WITH BIGGEST HATS OFF TO LARRY HELTON AND JEREMY STEVENSON.

I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT ALL OF MY PHOTOGRAPHS ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING COPYRIGHTED. I AM WILLING TO GIVE THE RIGHTS TO NON-PROFIT HISTORICAL PROJECTS, LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. HOWEVER, IF MY PHOTOS ARE USED AS A PROFIT SOURCE, I DO EXPECT COMPENSATION.

PHOTOGRAPHER-WAYNE CHATFIELD (wynpatriot953@aol.com)

EVERY HOUSE THAT IS POSTED IS COMPRISED OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL,WHICH IS PERSONALLY VERIFIED. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE HAD SIDING ADDED IN SOME CASES, THEY HAVE KEPT THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE UNDERNEATH OF IT. EVERYTHING THAT IS POSTED IS TRULY WHAT CONSISTS OF ALMOST ALL OF THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL HOUSE. THERE ARE AN OCCASSIONAL 2 ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES POSTED BECAUSE OF THE UNKNOWN ORIGINAL STATUS.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS BLOG IS ONLY CAPABLE OF HAVING SO MANY SCHOOLS POSTED ON THE FIRST PAGE. THERE ARE NOW OVER 800 SCHOOLS ON THIS BLOG. TO SEE ALL SCHOOLS, YOU MUST SCROLL DOWN AT THE BOTTOM AND CLICK ON OLDER POSTS. AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE THEY WILL BE ALL ORGANIZED BY COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP, BUT AT THE PRESENT TIME, ON THIS PARTICULAR BLOG THERE IS NOT ANY ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTIES OR TOWNSHIPS, THE SCHOOLS ARE JUST IN THE ORDER THAT I HAVE COME ACROSS THEM. SO, TO SEE ALL THE SCHOOLHOUSES FOR A COUNTY YOU WILL HAVE TO SEARCH THROUGHOUT THE BLOG. 

COVERED BRIDGES AND OTHER STRUCTURES FROM THE ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE ERA HAVE BEEN ADDED DUE TO THE FACT THAT THESE WOULD BE A PART OF THE LIFE OF THE STUDENTS WHO WENT TO THESE SCHOOLS.

AND, MOST IMPORTANT..., IF ANY READER KNOWS ABOUT OTHER SCHOOLHOUSES, PLEASE CONTACT ME AND LET ME KNOW ABOUT THEM.

AND........ TO ENLARGE PICTURES FOR BETTER VIEW, JUST CLICK ON THEM.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

MARION COUNTY COURT HOUSE


 
 
MARION, OHIO
 
MARION TOWNSHIP
 

Saturday, June 1, 2013

LOCUST GROVE SCHOOL/CLARK COUNTY

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP # 12
 
Moved to Carillon Park in Dayton, Ohio 

Sunday, July 29, 2012

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH/MERCER COUNTY





CELINA, OHIO

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP

This incredible church was built  during the one room schoolhouse era, and in fact was within
a five mile radius of numerous of those schools. This church was certainly a part of numerous of the students who attended these schools.

MERCER COUNTY COURTHOUSE



CELINA, OHIO

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP

SCHOOL #2/AUGLAIZE COUNTY




JACKSON TOWNSHIP # 2

No.., this is not a one room schoolhouse, and I don't count it as such. However, it is a
classic example of the beginning of an end of the one room schoolhouse era as districts
were consolidated into bigger and newer schools.

SCHOOL #7/AUGLAIZE COUNTY




SAINT MARYS TOWNSHIP #7

Evidently this older school was replaced by the newer District # 1 school for they are only
a half a mile apart. The 1880 map showed this school, however after 1900 is was no longer shown.
The little addition on the side is most interesting, perhaps it was made as a home for the teacher.