The historic Abbe Creek School is a one-room schoolhouse museum located one mile west of Mt.

[1] The school is located on land claimed by William Abbe, the first white settler in Linn County, Iowa.

[1] Abbe Creek School was first organized in 1844 by pioneer homesteaders: Alison I. Willets; Jesse Holman; and Peter, Henry and Conrad Kepler.

[1] Records in the Linn County assessor's office indicate that the present school house was built in 1856 of soft brick thought to have been manufactured locally at Port Stottler brickyard.

It is now operated by the Linn County Conservation Board and is open during the summer: June – August, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Museum tours are available for groups at request.

A few hundred feet southeast of the schoolhouse site is a marker honoring William Abbe as the first settler in Linn County.

Subjects studied in school included reading (McGuffey Readers), spelling, drawing, penmanship (the Palmer Method), music, geography, arithmetic, U.S. history and grammar.

[1] One infamous Abbe Creek teacher, Professor Hicks, could spit his tobacco juice into a crack of a floorboard near the stove with 80 percent accuracy.