Cedar Bluff One-Room School - Cape Fair, MO USA - One-Room Schoolhouses on Waymarking.com

Fortunately, we have a lot of good information on this old one-room school; see the link below. The school district was established in 1885, but this building was erected in 1891, to replace an initial log building. After school consolidations in 1950, this school was closed in 1951, having served for 60 years. Oddly enough, there were no outhouses at this school. Instead, the bluff below the school served as the bathroom area - one area for boys and another for girls.

A photo in the web page shows the school during a 1961 reunion, at which time the bell tower still existed on the building.

At the time of this waymark listing, the roof of the building looked very good, as if it had been re-sheathed with metal not too long ago. The place where the single gate had been in the fencing around the school was replaced with a pre-fabricated fence section crudely wired onto the surrounding fencing and trees. There is plenty of room to park at this old entrance lane, which is where I took the west photos looking east.

Since there is no ready access to the building itself, it apparently is serving no current purpose, except to stand there majestically as a reminder of a former time.

Original or Re-creation?: Original Year the school first opened.: 09/01/1891 Year the school closed.: 05/01/1951 Is the schoolhouse still open as a school?: no Address: Cedar Bluff Road Cape Fair, Missouri USA 65624 Web Address (if available): [Web Link] Does the school offer 19th century classroom reenactments or day camps?: no

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