In addition to being a schoolhouse, the building also served as a voting place, a community center, and a storm shelter.

As the number of farm families in the area diminished the enrollment in the school declined.

In 1920 the Iowa General Assembly passed laws to improve rural schools.

[2] After the school closed the building sat empty until it was sold in 1948 to Olive Cole, a former teacher here.

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