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Photo 17-QOR-17

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Wolford/ Kinsey's house and the little red school house.

Went to school there first three years, the school got water from the farm, had outhouse for the bathroom, went to church one time in that church, Nelson LA bounty was on the fam with Brown Swiss cattle

My mother and her seven siblings) attended this one-room schoolhouse (grades 1-8) in South Albany while they were growing up on a farm approximately a quarter of a mile from school, and I attended grades 1 through 3 in South Albany until the school was closed in June 1960 because a new school was built in East Albany. This schoolhouse had no plumbing for sewage or otherwise, and it was heated by a large wood-burning furnace (the students threw the firewood into the cellar and stacked the firewood in the cellar). As David Slicer said, the school had an outhouse, but there was an enclosed walkway to the enclosed outhouse which was separated for boys and girls by a wall (both sex-segregated outhouses had a two-holer for any rare occasion requiring dual occupancy). The outhouse was not heated, which made it necessary to tend to business during the winter months. Nelson LaBounty, who owned the neighboring farm at the time I was attending this school, periodically cleaned out the sewage from beneath the outhouse β€œbenches". The schoolhouse was painted white while it was being used as a school, but it was later painted red while serving as a private residence, and there are postcards referring to it a little red schoolhouse.

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