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
Monday, April 23, 2018
Jefferson #3, Huston/Swisher School
On its original location at 80 Division Street, Swisher, IA, used as a house. Easiest access is I-380 exit 10, then turn west to Swisher. The house is on the north side of the street, across from the Swisher bank.
Photographed 4/19/18
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This house was my Uncle Joe and Aunt Reda Herman's house around the 1960s to 1990s.
We moved to Swisher from the Chicago area in December 1995. We always thought this was a neat house, but we never thought about it as a school. We didn't start our school photography until 2003 but no longer went by this because we moved to North Liberty in 2002. Later, when we got a copy of a 1912 Johnson County map with grid lines, railroads, rivers but not much city markings, we drove to every school site on that map and this was one of them!
2 comments:
This house was my Uncle Joe and Aunt Reda Herman's house around the 1960s to 1990s.
We moved to Swisher from the Chicago area in December 1995. We always thought this was a neat house, but we never thought about it as a school. We didn't start our school photography until 2003 but no longer went by this because we moved to North Liberty in 2002. Later, when we got a copy of a 1912 Johnson County map with grid lines, railroads, rivers but not much city markings, we drove to every school site on that map and this was one of them!
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