ORIGINS

I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike). As the years went by I watched this wonderful, familiar friend fall apart. After I married the school really began to deteriorate. Every time we visited the area I would want to take a photo of the school but never did. Finally, when we went specifically for the task, the school was gone. It was a huge loss for me and, since that time, whenever we pass a one-room school it is a joy to stop to take a picture or two. Thus, our collection here and the blog with schools in other states. Jill :oD

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Boulder Township, Frozen Hill School

This is another school reported in the Cedar Rapids Gazette (10/3/05), and which we then had to go see on 10/23/05.  When we took these photos we found the school in the northeast corner of Linn County, a mile west of the Jones county line.  It was on Frozen Hill Road, on the SE corner of the junction with Old Church Rd.  It stopped operating as a school shortly after the end of WWII and the people who bought the land it sits on were going to make it into a house, but that never happened and the building deteriorated.  They decided to give the building away and finally someone acquired it to move it and make into a cabin.  We took these photos before they moved it.  We do not know where it was moved to.
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