Abandoned Schoolhouse

[cbtreks]

We went for a drive on July 3. I picked a road I've never followed past a certain point and just drove and ended up seeing an old, abandoned schoolhouse sitting in a field at a corner of a crossroads. It's too bad it was abandoned and allowed to fall into disrepair instead of bought and maintained, maybe turned into a house. (I've seen another old schoolhouse turned into a little boutique gift shop and another that is now a private home but was once a bed and breakfast. They're both on a well-traveled road, though, and this is in the boonies, so I don't think retail or hospitality would work.) Here are a handful of pictures. I wish I had some better close-ups of the roof. I thought I took a few but I accidentally took videos instead. I'd have loved to get closer - probably not to go in, since the roof's in bad shape - but I was wearing little canvas shoes and no socks. Not a good idea! I have no desire to get bitten by ticks or twist an ankle.







The roof tile must've been beautiful. I don't remember exactly what the plaque above the door said and couldn't get a clear enough photo - something to the effect of Polk District School No. ______, with a date in the second half of the 1800s. I want to say 1868

I love finding things like this when we go out on drives. (You know what we didn't see that day? Old cemeteries. I'd have expected to see one somewhere but didn't see any. Sees weird to me.