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Dist. #42, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #42, 4-5 mi. northwest of Callaway in Custer County, Nebraska.

The Otterbein Record January 1882, Archives

Otterbein Record

Volume 2, Number 5

The Otterbein Record September 1881, Archives

Otterbein Record

Volume 2, Number 1

The Mount Vernon Republican: Vol. Xxvii No. 15, March 24, 1881

The Mount Vernon Republican: 1881

The Mount Vernon Republican was a newspaper published weekly in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

The Waterville Mail (Vol. 33, No. 35): February 13, 1880, Maxham & Wing

The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Eastern Mail (July 1847-August 1863).
Published weekly, September 4, 1863 - May 9, 1906.
Publishers: Maxham & Wing (1863 - December 2,1885); Ephraim Maxham (December 1885); Wing & Wing (January 1886 - March 21, 1891); Charles G. Wing (March 21, 1891 - April 17, 1891); Prince & Wyman (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1896); The Mail Publishing Company (February 26, 1896 - May 9, 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1209701~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486964

Knight School - Dist. #91, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Knight School, located 1 1/2 miles west and 1 mile south of the Valley and Custer County line.

Dist. #17, Country School Legacy Administrative Staff

School Buildings

Information on District 17, located on the grounds of the Polk County Historical Society in Osceola, Nebraska.

Sunny Hillside - Dist. #11, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Sunny Hillside School, originally 4 miles southeast of Cambridge in Furnas County, Nebraska.

The Waterville Mail (Vol. 32, No. 43): April 11, 1879, Maxham & Wing

The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Eastern Mail (July 1847-August 1863).
Published weekly, September 4, 1863 - May 9, 1906.
Publishers: Maxham & Wing (1863 - December 2,1885); Ephraim Maxham (December 1885); Wing & Wing (January 1886 - March 21, 1891); Charles G. Wing (March 21, 1891 - April 17, 1891); Prince & Wyman (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1896); The Mail Publishing Company (February 26, 1896 - May 9, 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1209701~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486964

The Mount Vernon Republican: Vol. Xxv No. 13, March 13, 1879

The Mount Vernon Republican: 1879

The Mount Vernon Republican was a newspaper published weekly in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Harmony School - Dist. #53, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Harmony School, located 8 miles south and 1 mile west of Nebraska City in Otoe County, Nebraska. Detailed information on the history.

Mount Hope - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Mount Hope School, located 4 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Meadow Grove in Madison County, NE.

The Mount Vernon Republican: Vol. Xxiv No. 27, June 20, 1878

The Mount Vernon Republican: 1878

The Mount Vernon Republican was a newspaper published weekly in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Providence Independent, V. 3, Thursday, January 24, 1878, [Whole Number: 135], Providence Independent

Providence Independent Newspaper, 1875-1898

[4] p. “Independent in all Things – Neutral in Nothing.” Newspaper published in Trappe, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, national and international news, fiction and advertisements.

Providence Independent, V. 3, No. 3, Thursday, June 28, 1877, Providence Independent

Providence Independent Newspaper, 1875-1898

[4] p. “Independent in all Things – Neutral in Nothing.” Newspaper published in Trappe, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, national and international news, fiction and advertisements.

1876-03-04 Maysville Republican, Maysville Republican (Maysville, Ky.)

Maysville Republican Archive

Maysville Republican published on March 4, 1876.

Redbird - Dist. #3, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Redbird School, located 6 miles south of Lynch in Holt County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms.

Providence Independent, V. 1, No. 1, Thursday, June 3, 1875, Providence Independent

Providence Independent Newspaper, 1875-1898

[4] p. “Independent in all Things – Neutral in Nothing.” Newspaper published in Trappe, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, national and international news, fiction and advertisements.

Center School - Dist. #28, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Center, District 28, located about 5 miles east and 2 miles north of Kearney in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

Branch School - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Branch School, west of Hartington in Cedar County, Nebraska. While the form calls it the Branch School, other documents call it the Branch Oak School.

Brief mention of the Blizzard of 1888 in the Narrative Information section.

The Religious Historian, Volume 2, Issue 4, Tolbert Fanning

The Religious Historian

Volume 2, issue 4 of The Religious Historian edited by Tolbert Fanning and published April 1873 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pleasant Hill - Dist. #16, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Pleasant Hill School, located 7 miles north of Kearney, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Image is of the modern school and probably not the building described in the site form.

Includes a copy of a 1958 Kearney Hub article titled "Schoolboy on Horse Fast Fading Scene", additional information from after the school was moved to the Stuhr Museum, including an inventory of the school, and a note titled "Current Use of the Gibbon Rural School in the Museum's Cultural Heritage Program". The latter two documents refer to the school as being part of District #25.

Buffalo Creek - Dist. #34, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Buffalo Creek School, located 7 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Tilden in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes a history of the district, written by Sharyl Linda Roewert as an 8th grade assignment in 1967.

Glenwood - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Glenwood School, 4 miles north of Kearney on Highway 10 in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Includes images of both old and new (~1980) building.

The Religious Historian, Volume 1, Issue 12, Tolbert Fanning

The Religious Historian

Volume 1, issue 12 of The Religious Historian edited by Tolbert Fanning and published December 1872 in Nashville, Tennessee.

1872-05-30 Flemingsburg Democrat, Flemingsburg Democrat (Flemingsburg, Ky.)

Flemingsburg Democrat Archive

Flemingsburg Democrat published on May 30, 1872.

1872-04-11 Flemingsburg Democrat, Flemingsburg Democrat (Flemingsburg, Ky.)

Flemingsburg Democrat Archive

Flemingsburg Democrat published on April 11, 1872.

Gleason School - Dist. # 43, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Gleason School, District #43. It is located near Oakland in Burt County, Nebraska. At the time the form was filled out in ~1980, the school was still in use.

Eich - Dist. #57, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Eich School, also called White Temple School. The school was located about 1 1/2 mi. northwest of Strang in Fillmore County, NE. Includes a quote from The Fillmore County Story and a letter from Mrs. William Eich, the owner of the school.

St. Deroin School - Dist. #56, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on St. Deroin School, located 14 miles southeast of Brownville in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms for this location, both including the brochure from Nebraska Game and Parks.

Additional correspondence between Ernest Grundy and Homestead National Monument is included.