Legacy of One-Room Schools, Myrna J. Grove

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  • Legacy of One-Room Schools
  • Myrna J. Grove
  • Hardcover: 142 pages
  • Publisher: Masthof Pr (January 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1883294924
  • ISBN-13: 978-1883294922
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.8 x 11.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds













My Thoughts

I love history so it is not uncommon for me to pull over to look at a few of the old remaining one-room school houses when we travel.





In the 19th and 20th century, most American students attended one-room schoolhouses. 

Students would get up early and get off to school, on foot. They would walk many miles, surrounded by pastures and woods with only a few houses viewable in the distance.

If they got to school early, they would play outside - when the weather was decent. If it was cold, they'd go inside and deposit their coats and lunch buckets before taking their seats.The school would often be warm inside, as the teacher arrived early, to start the fire in the wood burning stove.The only bathroom to use was outside in the outhouse.


In one-room schools houses, students ages ranged between first and eighth grade so as many as 40 students may be in attendance to help support one another's studies. ( In the photo above is some of the books students studied.) 

After school, the students would assemble and walk back home.



 Author Spotlight




Author and teacher Myrna Gove likes speaking about one-room schoolhouses.

She recently discussed their legacy at this presentation before the Swiss Community Historical Society.








  • From Author Myrna J. Grove

"My Mother began her teaching career in a one-room school in Williams County, Ohio. My own fourth-grade students delight in learning about the past, and I often take them to nearby restored schools to re-enact the one-room school era. I began doing research and taking pictures of one-room schools in Northwest Ohio. Then, I became fascinated by the remnants of early education along country roads during my frequent travels elsewhere. Since families today are sometimes missing the close-knit community life which surrounded early schools, I began to consider some of the positive things one-room schools had offered to children."