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Heritage & Historical Society

Ross Run School House
 
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One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to five to eight grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. While in many areas one-room schools are no longer used, it is not uncommon for them to remain in developing nations and rural areas.
 




This is a picture of the school before it was moved.  It use to be located between Wilbur and Joseph Mills here in Tyler County. 

 

 

 



Governor Cecil Underwood wanted
preserve this school and had it moved to
the museum lawn.
 

 
 





Here is a picture of one of the classes from the Ross Run School House.





 
 


 How the school might have looked when it was in use

Governor Cecil Underwood attended this school when he was in the seventh and eighth grades.
He earned extra money working as the school's custodian each morning before classes started and tended
to the potbellied stove that remains today in the center of the one-room school.

Stop on by the museum to tour the inside of the school house.
This site was created and maintained by
 Tyler County Heritage and Historical Society