OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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The District Schools 103
would be so near the wheel tracks that a large stone was set up at the most exposed corner to protect the structure from being injured by passing vehicles. |
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An Old-time District Schoolhouse. |
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The schoolhouses seldom had enclosures or shade trees, and the summer sun and the winter winds had free play.
The number of pupils to be accommodated in a district was likely to be large, for the children in the old-time families were numerous, and the farm regions had not yet begun to be depopulated by the cityward migration destined to drain them later. Nevertheless, no matter how many the scholars, there was never any thought of providing more than a single teacher. The main purpose of the constructors of the buildings seems to have been to see into how |
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