William Holmes McGuffey School

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Artifact Overview

The McGuffey School was built in Greenfield Village in 1934, created out of barn logs from the 1790s southwestern Pennsylvania farmstead where textbook author William Holmes McGuffey was born. Children living in frontier communities learned to read in rustic schoolhouses like this one. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers gave them an easy, standardized way to do it.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Schoolhouse

Date Made

1934

Creator Notes

Built in 1934 in Greenfield Village. Logs from Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Location

at Greenfield Village in Porches and Parlors District

Object ID

34.777.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Log (Wood)

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