The History Of Education Of Lawrence County PDF Download

This book contains the history of over thirty one room schools, including many class photographs, and the thirteen hamlets in Ozark, Lincoln, Green and Red Oak Townships in Lawrence County, Missouri. In the early 1850's, Missouri General Assembly established township school districts to make education available to all children. The first log school houses were few in number and many children had to walk as much as two and a half miles each way to school in the thinly populated county. After the Civil War, as population grew, new schools were added and construction of frame schools replaced the primitive dirt floor log school houses. In 1951-52 the country schools closed and were consolidated into the Miller Reorganized School District #2. These school closings and improvements in transportation, also ended the need for the community trade center. Most ar now gone with maybe a church and cenetery remaining as a reminder of their glory years.