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Inside the 1887 schoolhouse on the grounds at the Pioneer Museum of Art and History in Colby.

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  1. They really did have “bench” seats in one-room schoolhouses! I went to a few one-room schoolhouses in my nomadic childhood, but they all had single desks. I’ve read about “bench” seats before, maybe in circumstances when a younger child was sent to school with an older sibling. I can see that these bench seats are intended to accomodate at least two children, maybe more under crowded conditions, but oh, how the opportunity for mischievous behavior expands exponentially!

  2. My one room school had these when I was in the first grade but only on the front row for the youngest grades and they were closest to the teacher. My family moved a mile across the highway so I attended a different one-room for two years until it closed. The teacher and students moved back to my first school for my fourth grade and there were no more multi-desks.

  3. We still had these when I was in Jr high In the old West school in Osawatomie. I can remember painfully getting my long legs wedged under them and not being able to get out to change classrooms one day.

  4. My school in Woodbine didn’t have these kinds of desks, and I never saw a pot-bellied stove (and I’m probably older than all of you!) –anyway, I missed out on the one-room schoolhouse; my school was a big 2-story building, grades 1-12. aw….the good ol’ days! (and we always had ‘hot’ lunches)

  5. My dad went to a one-room schoolhouse. He had a lot of siblings and they used to hitch a horse to a farm wagon and drive that to school.

    I was a small-town girl and we had an actual brick two-story school building, K-12. I don’t know when it was built but when I was going there in the 50s/60s they built a new grade school and then a consolidated high school out in the country, which is the only time I had to ride a school bus.

    I’m sure that old school building is probably gone by now.

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