Country School Museum

Our Mission:  To educate today's world about the lost but not forgotten one room country schools of America!

Thanks to our generous donations the past few months we are able to keep this site going!! We can not thank our supporters enough!!

If you are interested in helping us paint these schools please contact us!! 

Belleview on the left and Spring Creek on the right:

 Our Historic Schools:

  Belleview School Built in 1894 and formerly known as school district #68 of Sumner County Kansas closed April 20th 1956:

Spring Creek School Built in 1904 and formaly known as school district #36 of Sumner County Kansas closed April 18th 1947:

 Past Interviews:

Heartland the Documentary made May of 2015: 

Larry Hatteberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRmQnJES_Vs

 

Inside the Belleview School Currently:

 6 rows of desks to seat around 30 or more students:

(One row belongs in Spring Creek when it is ready)



Music...

Library...

Recitation area...

April 5th 2016: 

The Spring Creek School District #36 of Sumner County Kansas was successfully moved from its original location South of Corbin Kansas Off anson road across the street and a little to the south from the Corzine Cemetary.

The school, its outhouses and its coal shed to be restored and used for educational purposes like Belleview!

Introducing "Diesel" the Clydesdale Draft Horse...

Have you ever gotten the opportunity to pet a Clydesdale Draft horse?

Here is your chance...

He will mature somewhere between 17 and 18 hands tall (a hand = 4 inches) and will weigh somewhere between 1,600 to 2,000 pounds once he is full grown. He is in training to be ridden in local parades. We also hope to get him trained to pull a wagon if we have the funds in the future.

Diesel is a sweet guy who LOVES people! He will be a spectacular added feature to the Country School Museum!

A little history about the Clydesdale breed:



The Clydesdale breed originated in Scotland. Originally, this breed was used for agriculture and hauling freights. Today, the breed is mostly used for demonstrations, parades, and wagon rides.

The first recorded use of the name "Clydesdale" was in 1826. By 1830, the breed spread all over Scotland and Northern Europe. In 1877. the Clydesdale Horse Society of Scotland was formed followed by the American Clydesdale Association in 1879.

In 1914, when World War 1 began, the numbers declined due to increasing mechanization and war conscription. The breed became vulnerable to extinction and remains that way today.

The breed's notoriety was re-established in 1933 at the end of prohibition when Anheuser Busch drove a Clydesdale team pulling a wagon load of Beer to our nation's capital.

What We Do

"To educate today's children about the lost but not forgotten one room schools of America"

The year is 1895...

Boys and girls entered seperately (the windows on the front where once doors). Boys on the right and girls on the left. Boys sat on opposite sides of the room from the girls. Wow what a change from today, huh!??

The Belleview Schoolhouse is registered with the Country School Association of America:



And the Kansas State Historical Society:

http:/www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/nominationsNRDB/Sumner_BelleviewSchoolSR.pdf



Call Us Today!

Schedule a program for your group today!! Open to any age by appointment only!  620-845-4392 email cowgirlupgood@yahoo.com