Farm Life on the Prairie
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Here are some farmers harvesting their potato crops from the fertile prairie soil around 1910-1920. Image courtesy of Five Mile School.
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Five Mile Prairie Schoolhouse
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…