Collins Schoolhouse
A few miles outside of Yellow Springs is a one-room schoolhouse restored and refurbished by the late Helen Bryson Brantley and her husband, Virgil, and now used as an educational resource where area students can experience life in the late 1800s for a day.

The pictures offered below are taken from a Mills Lawn Elementary School visit in May of 2003 and the Yellow Springs Historical Society program on May 2, 2004.

Outside the school: pump, woodshed and outhouse.


  

   

Inside details: examples of furnishings collected in the restoration. The stove is still used on cool days.

      

   

   

Learning lessons of yore from Mrs. Whitaker
   

   

   

Cloakroom: Lunch pails and baskets kept at the ready.

Speakers for this Historical Society program: Collins descendant Janine Montgomery, local one-room school enthusiast Philip Rothman and Collins School "maintenance mouse" (Jan Campbell-Robinette)

   

   
Farewell and come again

   


Historical information on Yellow Springs schools from the Yellow Springs News on October 15, 1926
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