Grade School Students and Teacher on steps of original Five Mile Schoolhouse.

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Grade School Students and Teacher on steps of original Five Mile Schoolhouse.

A photo of one of the first classes of students to attend the original one-room school, around 1907. Image courtesy of Five Mile School.

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By Robert Lambeth
The original Five Mile Prairie Schoolhouse was built in 1901. It was a small one-room building that housed fourteen students and one teacher. In 1912 the school, which had become too small for the expanding Five Mile population, was replaced by a…