Rosarian Academy students experience school 120 years ago at Little Red Schoolhouse
Rosarian Academy students recently got lessons how school was done in the 1890s at the Little Red Schoolhouse, home to The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach’s “living history” program.
They studied the 3 “R’s”: Reading, writing, and arithmetic and other lessons such as Spencerian script, stories from McGuffey's Readers, a spelling bee, and recess games typical of the times on their March 6 field trip.
The Little Red Schoolhouse was founded in 1886, it was the first school to serve southeast Florida. Originally one mile north of the Royal Poinciana Bridge on the Lake Trail on John S. Phipps' property, it ceased operation in 1901.
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The Gardener's Club of Palm Beach refurbished the structure in the 1960s and the town moved it to Phipps Ocean Park. In the 1990s, a century after it was founded, The Preservation Foundation began its "living history" program to provide schoolchildren an early American schoolhouse experience.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Students learn 1890s school at Little Red Schoolhouse in Palm Beach
