Iowa's Rural School System - A Lost Treasure
The Key to Iowa's Rural Settlement, featuring Richland #1 School in Sac County, near Odebolt, Iowa
The book by Odebolt native,
Sandra Kessler Host
The Key to Iowa's Rural Settlement, featuring Richland #1 School in Sac County, near Odebolt, Iowa
The book by Odebolt native, Sandra Kessler Host
Available for purchase at $30
(add $6 for S&H)
Mail checks to:
Rural Legacy Committee/City of Odebolt
PO Box #235
Odebolt, Iowa 51458
For more information, contact:
Carol Raasch 712-668-4285
or Ruth Neville 712-668-4222
Carol Raasch 712-668-4285
or Ruth Neville 712-668-4222
Books also available at Iowa State Bank in Odebolt
All book proceeds go to the Rural Legacy Project, in which Richland #1 school house will be restored, moved to Odebolt, and used to house a museum covering the history of rural schools around Odebolt as well as in Sac County and Iowa.
Proceeds from the book and community contributions will help fund the next two steps of the project, which are to preserve and rebuild Richland #1 rural school into a first-class museum on rural schools that will feature memorabilia and histories of other rural schools from Cook, Richland and Wheeler Townships.
The 286-page, color-illustrated book ($30) is based on five years of research and was written by Sandra Kessler Host. Host grew up on a farm north of Odebolt and attended Richland #1 School before it closed.
The book documents how two-thirds of Iowa was settled and the key role that rural schools played that few know about. The settlement pattern is illustrated with photos and artifacts from Sac County, Richland Township and Richland #1 School as examples, but the same pattern was repeated thousands of times throughout central and western Iowa.
Host was the featured speaker at the all-alumni banquet on June 17, at Odebolt-Arthur Community School. She told about her journey that resulted in the book and working with so many dedicated people from the Odebolt area that share the dream.
THREE-STEP RURAL LEGACY PROJECT
Many members of the community have contributed time, stories, photos and memorabilia to a three-part Rural Legacy Project to preserve area rural schools and their histories. The first part of the project is the book, “Iowa’s Rural School System: A Lost Treasure.”Proceeds from the book and community contributions will help fund the next two steps of the project, which are to preserve and rebuild Richland #1 rural school into a first-class museum on rural schools that will feature memorabilia and histories of other rural schools from Cook, Richland and Wheeler Townships.
The 286-page, color-illustrated book ($30) is based on five years of research and was written by Sandra Kessler Host. Host grew up on a farm north of Odebolt and attended Richland #1 School before it closed.
The book documents how two-thirds of Iowa was settled and the key role that rural schools played that few know about. The settlement pattern is illustrated with photos and artifacts from Sac County, Richland Township and Richland #1 School as examples, but the same pattern was repeated thousands of times throughout central and western Iowa.
Host was the featured speaker at the all-alumni banquet on June 17, at Odebolt-Arthur Community School. She told about her journey that resulted in the book and working with so many dedicated people from the Odebolt area that share the dream.
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