Vine Hill One-Room School - Wheelerville, MO - One-Room Schoolhouses on Waymarking.com

Not much can be found about this school and church from a web search, except the usual 100+ hits from "home town finder" types of sites that acknowledge its existence from topographic maps. However, it is referred to in a rootsweb page as the Vine Hill School, also known as Horn[e]y Buck School, and Vine Hill Church. The photos of the school in the web page are from an earlier wood-sided building.

According to the painted sign above the door, the current native-stone-sided building was built in 1939 by the WPA. Etched in blocks above the door is: SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 30. It is not known when it was last used as either a school (probably until the consolidations of the 1950s) or as a country church.

As with most such multi-purpose buildings of the day, the building was probably used as a school 5 days a week, as a community building on Saturday (which it still is), and as a "union" church on Sunday; the latter being a type of church that is interdenominational, with pastors of different denominations preaching in a round-robin schedule.

There is part of the old hand-operated pump still mounted over the old well, and there are both a his and hers privies in good repair (fortunately - 'nuff said).

Original or Re-creation?: Original Is the schoolhouse still open as a school?: no Address: State Hwy PP Wheelerville, MO USA 65633 Does the school offer 19th century classroom reenactments or day camps?: no Year the school first opened.: Not listed Year the school closed.: Not listed Web Address (if available): Not listed

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Date Logged Log   11/26/2014 MountainWoods visited it