Little Red School House- Bennington
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The Schoolhouse was built
in 1909 and is furnished as a rural one-room school of the
1900-1930 period.
William Lenoir Train display
The engines and cars in the
collection run daily on a 13 x 26 square foot layout. The
collection has over 200 pieces including hand built steam
locomotives, diesels, gas-electric cars, passenger cars and
freight cars.
Harvesting America’s Ice
Ice Cutting on the Cedar
Cedar Falls – First 100 years
City on the Moskwahwakwah
Legacy of the One Room School House – also on video
Black Hawk County – “Seeds of Settlement”
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Our trunks
are filled with hands-on objects, photos, reproduced documents,
including teacher’s guides and more! For an added adventure,
you can invite one of our costumed interpreters to come out and
make the presentation come alive with additional information.
Our traveling
trunks are available to area schools and organizations. The
trunks are free and may be checked-out for a one month period.
One-room
Schoolhouse Trunk:
Discover what it was like
to be a student in a one-room schoolhouse with McGuffey readers,
slates, an old fashioned lunch pail, school bell and more!
Civil War
Trunk:
Explore the life of a
Civil War solider with uniforms, soldiers’ diaries, maps, photos
and more!
Old
Fashioned Games Trunk:
Play with games that children once
played with 100 years ago, including hoops, Jacob’s latter,
pick-up sticks and more!
World War II
Trunk:
Learn about WW II hands
on with actual Uniforms, Newspapers, magazines, ration stamps,
and more from the 1940's.
