Welcome to Cornell School
453 S. Main Street, Johnstown, Ohio (Located on the campus of the Johnstown-Monroe School District )
453 S. Main Street, Johnstown, Ohio (Located on the campus of the Johnstown-Monroe School District )
A Brief History of Cornell School
Cornell School originally was located in St. Albans Township, near Alexandria, Ohio and served the surrounding farm families until 1923 when Ohio started consolidating their school districts. The dilapidating structure was then mainly used as a farm storage building and sat close to Duncan Plains Road in front of Tom and Gloria Miller’s modern-day built home. The Miller family offered to donate the one-room school to the Friends group with the condition that it be moved off their property.
A group of interested local educators, historians and friends were excited about saving this educational treasure and thus, the Friends of Cornell School organized in 1987 and began planning how to proceed. In 1990 the Friends of Cornell School received permission from the Johnstown-Monroe School District Board of Education to allow the one-room schoolhouse to be moved to their campus. It was at that time that the Friends ramped up fundraising so the deteriorating structure could be relocated onto the local school district property. |
In May 1991 the one-room schoolhouse traveled slowly down State Route 37 to its new home that was four miles away. It has resided at 453 S. Main Street for the last 32 years.
In 1996, after a painstaking 5 years of restoration and dealing with damaging weather related issues, the Friends of Cornell School group was finally able to start providing their “living history program” called “A Day in the Life of Cornell School”. This well-researched, historical reenactment experience continues to this day to provide participants a “travel back in time” for an authentic 1880-1900’s rural one-room schoolhouse visit. The vintage schoolhouse is considered valuable as an American architectural icon due to it being one of the few surviving single room brick school houses in central Ohio. Along with that fact, the Friends of Cornell School group has continued its vision to provide local history lessons and other educational programming to the children of the Johnstown-Monroe School District, the Johnstown community, and other central Ohio participants. |
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All Schoolmarms and Interested Teachers are invited to check out:
"A Day in the Life at Cornell School" 
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Our extensive teacher's guide was created to help our volunteer schoolmarms, as well as classroom teachers, prepare for "A Day in the Life at Cornell School". Feel free to copy any of the resources and also check out the digitized links for additional information.
Most field trip visits to Cornell School are conducted by retired area school teachers and others who are familiar with the one-room schoolhouse curriculum.
Classroom teachers that accompany their students to Cornell School are asked to participate as observers, but will be called upon to help with the passing out of materials, lunch time, bathroom breaks, answering questions, and disciplining students when necessary.
Classroom teachers can conduct their own self-guided program at the Cornell School. They are encouraged to use the Teacher's Guide for Cornell School.
Most field trip visits to Cornell School are conducted by retired area school teachers and others who are familiar with the one-room schoolhouse curriculum.
Classroom teachers that accompany their students to Cornell School are asked to participate as observers, but will be called upon to help with the passing out of materials, lunch time, bathroom breaks, answering questions, and disciplining students when necessary.
Classroom teachers can conduct their own self-guided program at the Cornell School. They are encouraged to use the Teacher's Guide for Cornell School.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
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Map for Cornell School
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Cornell School is located at 453 South Main Street in Johnstown, Ohio. This is also State Route 37.
Visitors should turn onto the street at Chambers Way that is near the one-room schoolhouse. Note: Cornell School is closed from November 1st through March 30th, except for special requests. |
