I intend to archive the contents of this website and add all of the trip reports to each schoolhouse I’ve been to -but not written about yet- at my own website, tedshideler.com. I’ve been working on migrating everything over in a blog format. Please follow it to find my work as it appears!
A history of the Wayne Township District 1: Willow Pond schoolhouse in Hamilton County.A history of the Wayne Township District 2: Tick Ridge schoolhouse in Hamilton County.A history of the Wayne Township District 7 schoolhouse in Hamilton County.A history of the Wayne Township District 8: Clarksville schoolhouse in Hamilton County.A history of the Wayne Township District 12: Fairview schoolhouse in Hamilton County.
Today is National Ice Cream Day if you’re from America, because of course it is. Have a cone and read up on the new stuff I’ve posted! Also, make this exact face as you lick the sprinkles off your cone of choice: 😜🍧 🍨 🍦 A history of Hamilton County’s Delaware Township school systemA history of the Delaware Township District 6 schoolhouseY
Most everyone who’s met me knows about my fascination with old one-room schoolhouses and my erratic compulsion to find all of them that still stand across East Central Indiana. You… Read more Jay County’s Jackson Township District 2: White Oak schoolhouse, from the air →
A member of my Facebook group FOUND Muncie, Steve Copeland, advised me that the Perry Township District #3 schoolhouse, commonly known as Rees or Edgewater, had been demolished in the past few weeks. I hadn’t been out that way in a while, but darned if he wasn’t right. There’s no trace of the 163-year-old structure. I hate to be editorial, but this was always one of my favorite old schoolhouses given how it looked in the summer- the overgrowth enveloped it in such a mysterious way. Now there’s no overgrowth… Read more New for 6/3/22 →
Yesterday was my brother’s thirtieth birthday. Happy birthday, John 🎂🎂🎂! Unfortunately, my repeated efforts to play a birthday show on my Showbiz Pizza robots was met with repeated declinations. Sorry 🦍 and 🐻! Maybe next year! A history of Hamilton County’s Fall Creek Township school systemA history of the Fall Creek Township District 1 schoolhouseA history of the Fall Creek Township District 6 schoolhouseA history of the Fall Creek Township District 7 schoolhouseA history of the Delaware Township District 6 schoolhouseY
A history of Randolph County’s school system
A history of the Greensfork Township School System
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