ETCGT - #11 - Lordstown Schoolhouse Letterbox Hybrid

From horse-drawn buses to yearbooks, the one-room school house in Lordstown, OH, shows how education in the village has changed. Students attended one-room schoolhouses in Lordstown from 1830 through 1916. Seven one-room schoolhouses once existed in Lordstown. The Lordstown Historical Society one-room schoolhouse in Lordstown, next to the fire department, has pictures and newspaper clippings that hang on the walls. On one of the items is a 1945 class graduation picture from Lordstown High School. There were 12 girls and six boys in that graduating class.

Other items inside the Lordstown schoolhouse are clothing from the early 1900s and mail-sorting boxes from the Lordstown Post Office, which closed in 1900. One of the biggest draws inside the schoolhouse is on a table near the front door, which has Lordstown High School yearbooks dating back to 1946. A lot of people are surprised by the amount of history and memorabilia that the museum has. The schoolhouse is owned by the village but is maintained by the Lordstown Historical Society. It still has its original floors and over the years it’s been used as a school, a home, a craft store, and now a museum. It is hoped that as the members of the history society become older, the younger generations in Lordstown step in to keep the schoolhouse open.