I had one last day in Texas, and I'd seen most everything I felt safe enough to see. So I asked the folks what THEY wanted to see. Dad wanted to see the Gillespie County schools. So we went, and saw as many as we could given the constraints of the day.
They'll do the ones they missed some other time.
Rural schools are fascinating. Imagine walking miles to your nearest school, all grades in one room, learning your three Rs, and if you were lucky more (only need the three Rs for working the fields).
Or being a school teacher. A young woman, coming out to the country to teach, staying in a small house for the week next to the school before heading back to town for the weekend. Often in the middle of nowhere.
It's a very different world we live in 140 years later.
Here are the Muesbach Creek School, and the Grapetown School and Teacherage.
