Kentucky one-room schools

My Old Kentucky Home School, Lawrence County, Kentucky

January 16, 2021

USGS topographic maps are like a portal to the past. If you’ve never poured over one, examining the names of long-vanished communities, meandering creeks, and local landmarks like churches, schools, and cemeteries, then you’re missing out on a free and fun form of entertainment (in my opinion at least). I was scouting out such a (read more)

Categories: Lawrence County, Schools

Tags: historic schools, Kentucky one-room schools, Louisa KY, one-room school

Walnut Grove School, Grayson County, Kentucky

October 12, 2020

At the beginning of the 20th century,  the Grayson County School Board embarked on an ambitious school building campaign across the west-central Kentucky county. Around 100 one-room schools were ultimately constructed, serving schoolchildren in scattered, small, rural communities. One of the survivors is the one-story, 30-foot long Walnut Grove School, built in 1911. Since my (read more)

Categories: Grayson County, Schools

Tags: Kentucky one-room schools, one-room school

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