Dirt Floor Schoolhouse

A peaked shingled roof was added in 1912 or 1913.

Dirt floor schoolhouse. The first schoolhouse in alliance was a tent. It had split logs for seats a dirt roof and floor. Its city bagamoyo with between 80 000 and 250 000 people depending on what source you rely on is less a city than a patchwork of dirt streets and mud hut neighborhoods where electricity is scarce most cooking and plumbing take place in gutters outdoors house fires often burn unopposed there being no working fire engine or. The first desks were homemade constructed of pine and seated two students each.

In 1867 three small school buildings were erected. Constructed in 1920 it was among 14 one room schoolhouses in service to the region. The interior walls originally bare and chinked logs were plastered in 1935. Originally the first floor had four large classrooms for the eight elementary grades and the second floor had four large classrooms for high school.

In 1854 an adobe church was built which also served as school. Restroom facilities were initially outhouses. Originally there was a flat dirt covered roof on the school. Most noted having dirt floors and no desks with an average of 17 students each.

In 1901 a detailed report of schools was published which showed that.