As part of the Country School Legacy project, information was collected on country schoolhouses across Nebraska. Site forms give details of the building, with many also including the names of former teachers and students. Photos are also included, where they were taken.
All originals are available in the UNK Archives and Special Collections.
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Sanborn - Dist. #41
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Sanborn School, located in Dundy County, Nebraska. Detailed information on the history and the physical building.
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Center School - Dist. #185
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Center School in Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska. Included is a publication that lists a number of rural schools that were in the area, with pictures of some. There is also a description of Center School by a former pupil and a letter from Lorraine Smith that has additional information.
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Panhandle School
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Panhandle School, located 17 miles south of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.
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Klondike School - Dist. #46
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Klondike School, located 12 miles north and west of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.
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Grandview - Dist. #48
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Grandview School (also called the Buckley School), located 18 miles south of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.
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Hutchinson - Dist. #23
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Hutchinson School, located about 14 miles northeast of Oshkosh in Garden County, Nebraska.
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Fischer - Dist. #27
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Fischer School, located 1 mile west, 5 miles north, and 1 mile west of Rulo in Richardson County, Nebraska.
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Park Center School
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Park Center School, located in Antelope County, Nebraska.
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Ash Hollow Rock - Dist. #55
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Ash Hollow Rock School, also called Clary School, located 5 miles southeast of Lewellen in Garden County, Nebraska.
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Hardscrabble - Dist. #84
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Hardscrabble School, located 8 miles south of Whitney in Dawes County, Nebraska.
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Harold Warp School - Dist. #13
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Harold Warp School, now located on the grounds of Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. It includes a copy of the National Register nomination of the building.
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Island Grove
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Island Grove (or Garden Grove) school, located 2 miles north and 1/2 mile west from Liberty in Gage County, Nebraska. Also includes notes on an earlier school called Frog Pond School.
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Mill School - Dist. #88
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Mill School, also referred to as the Colclessor School. Located 11 miles south and 1 mile west of Rushville in Sheridan County, Nebraska.
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Mixed Grove - Dist. #9
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Mixed Grove School, 6 miles south and one mile east of Arcadia in Sherman County, Nebraska.
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Morningside School - Dist. #17
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Morningside School, located near Oakland in Burt County, Nebraska. Attached to the school form is a two page personal testimony about the quality of education in the country schools, presumably authored by Mary Ann Hansen, who is listed as the surveyor on the site form.
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Ohme School - Dist. #22
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Ohme School, located 4 miles west and 2 miles north on Dailey and Custer County roads.
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Dist. #102
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District 102, located in Edison in Furnas County, Nebraska. Includes a picture of the historical marker erected in front of the schoolhouse.
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Flag Butte - Dist. #18
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Flag Butte School, located four miles west and eight miles south of Chadron, Nebraska.
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Greenhill School - Dist. #120
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Greenhill School, in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
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Balsora School - Dist. #27
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Balsora School, located 5 miles southeast of Arcadia in Sherman County, Nebraska.
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Buelah - Dist. #38
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Buelah School, District #38. It is near Lynch, in Boyd County, Nebraska.
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Dist. #8
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #8, located about 7 miles south of Dix in Kimball County, Nebraska.
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Alfalfa Center - Dist. #114
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Alfalfa Center, located five miles west and one mile south of Kearney. Includes a page of Alfalfa Center trivia and a list of personnel at Alfalfa Center.
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Dist. #42
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #42, located in Sherman County, Nebraska. Includes correspondence between Mrs. Joe Abraham and Prof. Ernest Grundy regarding the history of the district.
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Evergreen School - Dist. #22
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Evergreen School, 17 miles southwest of Chadron in Dawes County, Nebraska.