How do I do this

[dusty1530]

I want to find where the old schools were in my area you know like the schools around the in the country how would I go about finding these schools that are no longer in use

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

I want to find where the old schools were in my area you know like the schools around the in the country how would I go about finding these schools that are no longer in use

Not sure about your state, but here in CA, old topographic maps always showed one-room school houses. I'm assuming you mean country rural schools, right? (versus in-town urban schools).

But be aware that the old one-room schools of yesteryear that used to dot the countrysides (before the age of bussing and autos) are not always that good to detect at. They might have had whopping student populations of 20-ish kids at any given time. Sometimes were a short-duration (a mere 5 or 10 yrs, and simply a collection of several different farmers children ). And prior to the post WWII era (when the USA entered into very properous times), rural kids simply had no need for coins, money, etc... There was no school lunch and milk programs, as became vogue in the '50s and '60s.

I've hit many of these one-room school sites which we knew for a fact were virgin (based on the buttons and knick-nacks found). And a lot of them were litterally sterile of coins. The ones which tended to have coins at them, were those that doubled for purposes which would have brought adults there. Ie.: grange halls, or churches on weekends, or community gathering spots of some sort of cross-usage, etc...

 

[68K]

Try Historic Map Works. You can even overlay old maps onto Google maps. After you click on a map, go to the bottom and click on Historic Earth Free Basic, then click on hybrid map and you can change the old maps opaqueness.