Trinity, my mother and daddy went to school in one room school house. It had grades 1 thru 8 th grade. The big children helped teach the younger children. I’m fromKentucky. They went to school in summer and they didn’t have to wear shoes. My daddy didn’t go any farther than the fourth grade. My momma graduated from 8th grade. They both were very smart, a lot more common sense in those days. My daddy owned a construction business and made good money. My mother was a great house keeper, kept me and my sister and we had good meals everyday. No fast food.
As I sit here watching this video I am in an old school house called the Green School located in the Shields Valley Montana. The school was used in the early 1920’s. Class size was about 8 - 10 children (well behaved according to teacher) who actively helped with chores around the school. The teacher lived about 8 miles from the school and road her pony each day to teach the class. Local parents brought wood for the stove and water. The determination to be educated by the parents, teachers and children contributed greatly towed making the U.S. a highly productive country. Today far too many folks believe going to school or going to college is the goal. Actually becoming educated is the goal and the little one room school houses with dedicated teachers with responsible parents performed admirably. Great video Trinity.
My grand father had to hold up in the old school house that was on their farm during a huge blizzard back in the late 1930's for I believe 9 days. He got caught returning home from town. Everyone wrote him off for dead. He survived off of eating whatever he found in the school and he had burned every stick of furniture in the old school house, in the schools wood stove. This occured 14 mi west of Hoven South Dakota.
What a cool history story. To bad those books can't be stored in a way to see them, but that the mice can't destroy them. That building looks really good for having sat empty for 66 yrs.
My wife's family in TN made snow cream with the first snowfall. Add a little vanilla and some sugar. I grew up in Iowa, never heard of making ice cream from snow, we just ate it as we went, but avoided the yellow or brown colored snow😊
My mom was raised in Logan MT (Between Three Forks and Manhattan). She attended the Logan school house from first to eighth grade. I stayed with my grandparents for 6 months one year, attending the spring semester of the 5th grade at the Logan school (probably 78 or 79). My one class/classroom had students from 4th to 8th grade in it. The teacher had to not only teach us (probably 12 of us in total) but handle all of us. The Logan School still stands, and as I understand it, they are using the building to build guitars/mandolins.
🥰 Hey Trinity. I attended the same one room school that my mother did in Kenosha Wisconsin, a brick schoolhouse built in 1924, in the "sticks" of Kenosha. Where all the horses and cows lived. 😊 Thanks for your videos.❤⭐
My mother grew up in Ryegate Montana and this is so interesting to me- because she went to small school house also. Beautiful country, thanks for sharing all these videos with us.
Your story reminded me of my dad , we would go to my grandpa’s house and they raised sheep. Dad always told us not to eat anything grandma made that had raisins in it cause it wasn’t raisins ( sheep poo) he done this cause grandma had the best desserts in the state of Missouri and he didn’t want us to eat any so it saved more for him!!!
My Grandmother taught in the school year of 1914/15 in a one room school house at the base of Chimney Rock in Nebraska. She stayed with a ranch family. Her contract was for 2 years but her mother died in the fall of 1915 and she had to go home to Fairmont, Nebraska and take care of her brothers and sisters. We have visited the site. The foundation is still there but the building is no longer there. Chimney Rock is located maybe 15-20 miles outside of Scottsbluff Nebraska. She took the train out of Fairmont when she was 18 years old. She went to Done Teachers College when she was 16 and back then a teaching degree was a 2 year program.
My sister-in-law and her husband went to Done in the late 60s. They live in Stanton Nebraska. Their kids in the late 70s went to a one room school for the first few years before they decided to go into town. My brother-in-law drove a school bus when he retired from farming and spent hours each day making the 90 minute route to pick up kids from the farms.
It is so funny to hear someone refer to the late 50’s or even the 60’s as the “olden days”. I grew up in Eastern Montana and went to a small school that was divided down the middle with folding doors that could be opened to accommodate school plays and community functions. Grades 1-3 on one side, 4-8 on the other if we were lucky enough to have two teachers. Teachers were hosted by local ranches as your friend Jim described (single ladies) and a small house across from the school known as “the teacherage” house our rare male teacher who was married. Sadly some of the ranch guest teachers were subject to pranks by students attending parties at those ranches. I recall an incident of a mouse being captured and strategically placed in the teacher’s guest room bed.. By the way there were three in my class ..one of them was named Jim ( we called him Jimmy). I currently have cousins ranching in Phillips County in Montana near Malta..
Both my parents went to one room schoolhouses in south central Saskatchewan, not far from the US border. I’m 70 now but remember as a kid mom showing me the old one room schoolhouse she and her seven brothers and sisters went to. It was about a three mile ride on horseback. Long gone now but looked similar but slightly bigger.
I went to a one room school in the 5th grade in a small coal mining town called Clear Creek in Carbon County in Utah. Mine was the largest class, there were 3 of us. Classes were from 1st to 6th. Lots of fun memories.
Fascinating! I’m glad to see this building still standing. My wife and I volunteered as docents at a local outdoor museum in north central Texas that has a replica of a one room school house that was in that area in the 1800’s It’s interesting how the majority of books used were most often donated by the families. The one book most every family owned was a Bible. The “McGuffey Readers” were the primary textbooks. If they didn’t have a hired teacher most often they were run like modern day homeschool Co-ops, parents would take turns teaching what they knew for the good of the community. All of the families depended on each other, even the education of the next generation. It seems like the thriving and survival of the community was more obviously interconnected than we seem to realize it is today.
Fellow Texan here & used to live in Dallas. I would love to know where this outdoor museum is, it'd be a neat field trip for my homeschooled grandkids. Mayebe their Dallas area cousins would join (also homeschooled)
@catherinegrace7999 Note, live over near Cresson, Hwy 377. There is still an old schoolhouse located in the town there. Available to walk around and see. Also in Mineral Wells, the old school house area, has an old Home Education bldg, that is open as a museum.
We had similar in Australia, then "School of the Air" (radio) came along. School I went to, in a small town, had a horse paddock (pasture) until about 30yrs ago. I once took my son to school, on horseback, so he could tell his kids, he rode to school on a horse. Of course my horse had to go number 2, in the school yard, I think warning him not to just gave him the incentive.
That's funny the original chocolate chip ice cream, hey it could have been warm and yellow. I love how you dressed up for the filming clean snap shirt and your dress hat for going out in public. Does you wife know it's stained and dirty already? Cheers,keep the faith. Dean #3 thumbs up, great job
I've actually gone to two different country schools back in my youth 60s thru early 70s. They were bigger than the one you showed us, 1thru 8th grade. In my 8th grade year a copper head snake came in to the classroom one day, I got it out of there without getting bit, I was the oldest boy, so it was my job. Ha😢. Rode horseback to school on the last day of school. Thanks for Sharing 😊
Howdy Trinity 🤠 Love the "OLD TIME" reminiscing!! My Grandmother was born Flag Day, 1889 in Omaha Nebraska. She and my Great-Grandmother helped out Father Flannigan at "BoysTown".. They darned the boys socks and apparently gave Boys Town their very first lamb.. Have photos of my mother and her siblings going to school in a "goat cart" with their giant old billy goat harnessed up... Great Grandfather was friends with Buffalo Bill Cody, and he'd stop by their home for a meal and a few hands of cards whenever he was passing through.. Miss them and the history of their times!!! Safe travels, friend ❤️❤️ Stay FROSTY... Keep your powder dry and your head on a swivel... 🇺🇸🇺🇸WWG1WGA🇺🇸🇺🇸NCSWIC🇺🇸🇺🇸
My wife graduated from 8th grade from Boiling Springs School in 1970, a one- room school on their ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. And because it was on their ranch, they were responsible for finding the teacher.
My dad grew up in North Loup Nebraska, and went to a 1 room school house. He died 2 years ago at age 84. He had no water in his house till 8 grade, no electricity till 12 grade. He ended up going to Doane college to become an astrophysicist.
Wow, those items brought back memories, the desks, remember sitting at school with those, the world book, had the full set, studied those at night instead of a phone, loved those books. Great video Trinity, wish you would have thumbed through that World Book 😊
I don’t remember one room school house stories, but I remember my mom telling me stories about her grandparents house in Malta that didn’t have power and had an outhouse still into the 60s. She said it was always interesting to visit since my moms dad was in the navy and it was a big adventure to come back and visit.
Love stories like this - Thank you! Ok, I remember those desks from my childhood and coming from the Philippines, I thought they were such a modern luxury. LOL. I'm trying to imagine how really bad those kids were in comparison to today's standard in big city like San Francisco. I often get off public transportation when I see school kids get on as it can become dangerous, here.
Grew up West of there on Hwy2 in Chester.....had some of the same teachers my mother did when she was in school in the 50's. Thank you and keep them coming Trinity!
Thank You Trinity for this video. It was and is very interesting how the school system worked back in the day. One has to also remember that on the prairies of the time. it was the school of hard knocks rather the formal education. I think we have lost some of this kind of education. The basic's are gone of common sense in todays electronic world. Think of this when the power go's off the children of this world comes to a stop. Loved the video an am so glad that there are people that are trying to keep so of it alive yet.
Omg, lol, memories. Grew up near Absorkee, Mt, and they had schools like this dotted around. Great video and really appreciate this school is still there! 🌿💙
Oh, yes, the one room school, my grandmother regaled us was tales from that she always taught from the McGuffey readers. I never got close to her because she was more like a drill sergeant now I know the reason must’ve taught in Montana 😂😂😎
I attended 3 different one room schools in Southern Phillips Country Montana: Ruby Gulch, Zortman and Ester Lake, Years: 1943 thru 1949. I've hunted deer and elk just South of the school house shown, in the breaks.. Thanks for showing
I started out my education in a one-room school. One day we, the students and teacher, felt the schoolhouse shaking. It was a buffalo rubbing on the corner of the building. The school was near a herd of buffalo. I was in the second grade at the time.
There’s a lot of those one room school houses here in Ohio. The Amish still do school that way, all grades in one room and one teacher. Most of the kids walk, some use horses.
Lived outside the capital city of Vermont, attended three consecutive one room school houses, each with coal for heat, no running water, boys and girls outhouses out the back door; best educators and education a person could receive. They are all gone; region consolidated into one building, more time in busses, regulations and overs sight killed improvisation. Happy I lived and learned then. Tom and Jerry draft horses in the farm next door, a mile away.
Reminds me slightly of my bro-in-law who taught at a school few years ago in Judith Gap MT. Not 1 room but really not much bigger. And the winter there was brutal
In Kansas you didn’t even have to BE a teacher. You could sign up, and earn your teaching certificate during the summer. Both of my husbands parents were teachers. They taught in two different one room school houses. Both schools are still standing.
I went to Flowing Wells school. From 3rd grade to 8 grade. It’s was just south of Fradys ranch across hwy 200 . Around 1974. My step Father Don Dann was the Forman for the Hwy department. His mother was quiet a character she run her owned ranch and they called her the flying school marm. Orpha Dann was her name. She did this until she crashed her plane to many times and they took her plane away. Her ranch was just south of Nelson creek which was part of fort peck damn. We had 5 kids and I was the only girl after Lynn Gibbs graduated. I don’t think the building is there and more.
Trinity, it looks like this school house might be open to the public or at least sometimes. Can you provide more information where this school is located or if any of them has an opening hours for viewing? I just can't get enough of this stuff.
My great grandmother taught in a one room school is north western ohio for about 3 years till she had my grandfather. The teachers couldnot be married or pregnant or have children while they were employed
I posted a graduating 8th grade test from a school in witcita, KS from 1895, & College graduates couldn't even get 20% correct. Doesn't say much for federal school programs...
Hilarious story about the snow treat! That story is crap! Ya get it! Crap!! Lol I’m kidding around with a very corny joke! I find this video very interesting. I’m kinda surprised that kids were so bad back in the day. Which was an era when parents disciplined by spanking their kids. I just figured bc of that discipline kids usually had the fear of God in them. Example: if they got in trouble at school resulting in a paddling, they got it again at home! Thanks for sharing this info.
I know you had video on Yellowstone tv show. But I started watching 1883 tv show and I am big fan of westerns. But I wonder how was really the life 100-150 years ago in Wild West, was it really that dangerous and lawless, or Hollywood is just exaggerating?
On your video about mules ...its a john mule and a molly mule. A jack donkey and a Jenny donkey . A mule is the product of a mare horse and a jack donkey...a Hinny is a Jenny donkey and a stud horse. Us mule people get particular about mis gendering. Haaaa A Male mule isnt a jack. And theres a few cases of molly mules having colts although legend says no. Nature never says never. Heee haw. And john mules should always be gelded so they dont act too studly. Donkeys have 62 chromosomes and horses 64 so mules have 63 making them a hybrid and making them super special and the coolest equine in the bunch imo!!! .
And yet with every kind of information at our finger tips (curated by Google, most of it), ignorance in America is worse now than it has been at most any time. Information is necessary, but ignorance isn't a lack-of-information problem. In spite of the multi-million dollar school spreads these days, with high tech equipment and full staffing, the common American has never been more ignorant about most of the things that matter.
