Maple Plain School

One-Room School – 1859-1946. It was located west of Russellville on Route 896 at Street or Edenton Road. Maple Plain was the only one-room school of the 5 most recent schools that we will attempt to describe that was not brick. It had a full porch in the front with steps in the center of the porch. A small entry room housed the bench on which the crock to hold drinking water sat and it was fetched daily from a neighbor. The porch was surrounded by double railing supports with 4 posts. The windows had shutters. The building was heated with a wood stove. Upon interviewing several people who attended Maple Plain, no one can remember a bell except a hand held bell which sat on the teacher's desk. The teachers we could find on either report cards, newspaper accounts or oral histories were:

1870 – Addie L. Massey
1876 – K.D. Hodson who also taught in Penn Township
1888 – Mary Sutton and Miriam Jackson
1928,29 – Violet Wickhart
1931 – Miriam Jackson
1940 – Martha Linquist
1942 – Betty Moore (Hannum)
1948 – Violet Pierce