One Room School
by Kay Novy
Title
One Room School
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A vintage school room located in Hawthorn Hollow, in Kenosha county, Wisconsin.
In 1935, Ruth Teuscher purchased 40 acres of land in the Town of Somers in northern Kenosha County. Inspired by a grove of native hawthorn trees growing along the Pike River, she and her sister, Margaret, both teachers in Racine, named the property Hawthorn Hollow. They soon posted the land as a wildlife refuge, the first step toward developing what is now Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum.
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With the help of outside contributions, three historic buildings were moved to the property in 1967: the original Pike River School (1847), the second Pike River School
(1906), and the original Somers Town Hall (1859).
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1905-1906, the new school is built, probably by Ben F. Yule, though no records show how the school was built. Some of Yule�s homes still stand in Somers.
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The schoolhouse accommodated 50 students and was valued at $1150.00 for schoolhouse and grounds, apparatus $80.00, and the library $50.00.
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In September 1960, the seventh and eight grade pupils at Pike River were sent to schools in Kenosha by bus because the numbers in all eight grades were too many for one teacher to handle. In September 1962, the remaining grades, one through six, began to attend the new Somers Elementary School, and Pike River School was closed.
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