A class visiting our school
Fields Trips to the Miller Farm
General Field Trip Information: Please call (517)256-9460 to set up a time for your students to visit. You can visit the entire farm of some classes opt for just the school and the church, followed up by a visit to the Ice Cream Parlor, of course! Our convenient location makes us just a short walk from the Eaton Rapids School Complex. Please plan on at least an hour and a half for your tour. There is a $1 fee for each student. Each student will receive a small vanilla ice cream cone.
The schoolhouse is available for field trips, special programs, seminars, birthday parties, and more from May to November.
The schoolhouse is available for field trips, special programs, seminars, birthday parties, and more from May to November.
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You can also experience a school day as it might have been in the late Nineteenth Century in Eaton Rapids...
The One Room Schoolhouse Experience
Taught by a costumed docent/schoolmarm using slates and McGuffey Readers in a real 1870's classroom, students will experience what it might have been like to live in Eaton Rapids at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The students will leave with a better understanding of early education and hopefully a better appreciation of their present school program. They will learn about the history of our city and what it would have been like to attend a one room school in Eaton Rapids before electricity, phones, and computers, and will participate in the "readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic" that would have been taught at that time, will learn about the classroom discipline used back then, and what life might have been like in general during those early years.
This is a half-day experience, with lunch time and recess. There is a fee per child for the program. More information will be available here in the very near future regarding this new and exciting program!
For more information or to book a session email or call Deb Malewski at (517)256-9460
Download our Schoolhouse Experience brochure (PDF).
The students will leave with a better understanding of early education and hopefully a better appreciation of their present school program. They will learn about the history of our city and what it would have been like to attend a one room school in Eaton Rapids before electricity, phones, and computers, and will participate in the "readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic" that would have been taught at that time, will learn about the classroom discipline used back then, and what life might have been like in general during those early years.
This is a half-day experience, with lunch time and recess. There is a fee per child for the program. More information will be available here in the very near future regarding this new and exciting program!
For more information or to book a session email or call Deb Malewski at (517)256-9460
Download our Schoolhouse Experience brochure (PDF).
Almost 500 school children visited our schoolhouse each spring
1870 Wright One Room Schoolhouse
Our schoolhouse was built in 1870, but not at it's current location. It was originally located near Albion, Michigan, and was used as a school there until the late 1960's. It was left vacant for many years (other than the animals that lived in it!) until it was offered to the Eaton Rapids Historical Society a few years ago. It was moved to its current location, and restored, which involved many volunteer hours and many dollars.
The photo below shows how the school originally looked before it's move to Eaton Rapids.
Photo by Joanne Canen, who attended this school at its original location!
Our schoolhouse was built in 1870, but not at it's current location. It was originally located near Albion, Michigan, and was used as a school there until the late 1960's. It was left vacant for many years (other than the animals that lived in it!) until it was offered to the Eaton Rapids Historical Society a few years ago. It was moved to its current location, and restored, which involved many volunteer hours and many dollars.
The photo at the left shows how the school originally looked before it's move to Eaton Rapids.
The photo at the left shows how the school originally looked before it's move to Eaton Rapids.
