Iowa One Room Schools: Honey Creek #7

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, August 25, 2012

Honey Creek #7

From Victor, proceed north on SR21 to one mile north of 160th Ave, and the school will be on the west side of the road, now converted into a house. Since the school was closed, the hill the highway is on has been cut down, so the house looks to be sitting higher on a hill than in the old photographs.

The first photograph is from Owen Jones' book, One-Room School Houses: Iowa County, Iowa 1844 - 1966. The school faces east, at the road.