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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Westside School - Dist. #11
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Westside School, located 5 miles west of Arcadia in Custer County, Nebraska.
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Dist. #71
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #71. The district has been called the Scott School, the Terry School, and Enterprize. Includes a letter to James Dertien from Gary Kuchar.
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Prairie View - Dist. #78
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Prairie View School in Sheridan County, Nebraska.
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Snowball - Dist. #9
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Snowball School, located 10 miles northwest of Arapahoe in Gosper County, Nebraska.
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Mt. Pleasant - Dist. # 25
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Mt. Pleasant school, located southwest of Albion, Nebraska in Boone County. Additional images available under Download Full Text
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Grandview School - Dist. # 85
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Grandview School, located near Palmyra in Otoe County, Nebraksa. Includes a letter to Ernest Grundy in which Ruth Mortimer describes her experience attending Grandview School in the 1920s.
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Hillsdale School - Dist. # 43
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Hillsdale School, located 3 1/2 miles northeast of Schuyler in Colfax County, Nebraska. Includes a letter from Helen Marks Cerny, the director of the Schuyler Historical Society, about her experience in rural schools.
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Nonpareil School - Dist. #29
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Nonpareil School, near Hemingford, Nebraska in Box Butte County.
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West School
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on West School, located 4 miles north of Neligh, in Antelope County, Nebraska. Additional information on the Blizzard of 1888. Pictures of the school are available under Download Full Text.
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Dist. #50
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #50 located 2 miles west, 1 north, 1 west, 1 north, 1/2 east of Rulo, Nebraska.
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Liberty Hill - Dist. #80
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Liberty Hill school, located 8 miles NW of Riverdale in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
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Myrtle School - Dist. #5
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Myrtle School, located 10 miles west of Arcadia in Custer County, Nebraska.
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Christian Day School
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Christian Day School run by St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran and located 6 miles north of Falls City in Richardson County, Nebraska. Includes a history of the school, a history of the church, and correspondence with Ernest Grundy.
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Dederman - Dist. #24
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Dederman School.
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Dist. #42
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #42, 4-5 mi. northwest of Callaway in Custer County, Nebraska.
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Dist. #17
Country School Legacy Administrative Staff
Information on District 17, located on the grounds of the Polk County Historical Society in Osceola, Nebraska.
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Dist. #10
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on District #10 in Jefferson County, Nebraska. This is a scan of a booklet called "School by the Trail", written by Ella Mae Hurburt.
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Knight School - Dist. #91
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Knight School, located 1 1/2 miles west and 1 mile south of the Valley and Custer County line.
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Potter - Dist. #32
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on the Potter School, 5 miles south and 2 miles east of Gothenburg in Dawson County, Nebraska.
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Sunny Hillside - Dist. #11
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Sunny Hillside School, originally 4 miles southeast of Cambridge in Furnas County, Nebraska.
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Turkey Roost
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Turkey Roost, located 10 miles south and east of Arcadia in Sherman County, Nebraska.
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Harmony School - Dist. #53
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Harmony School, located 8 miles south and 1 mile west of Nebraska City in Otoe County, Nebraska. Detailed information on the history.
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Mount Hope - Dist. #27
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Mount Hope School, located 4 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Meadow Grove in Madison County, NE.
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Redbird - Dist. #3
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Redbird School, located 6 miles south of Lynch in Holt County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms.
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Stone School - Dist. #36
Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier
Information on Stone School, 2 miles east and 1 mile south of Kearney in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Includes photos of both the old and the new school buildings.