OLD SCHOOL OF THE DAY
Cross School
Voiles and Townsend Rds.
Martinsville, Indiana
Cross School is a historic one-room school building located on the southeastern corner of the intersection of Voiles and Townsend Roads southeast of Martinsville in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, brick building with a gable roof. It features segmental arched openings. Operating as a one room rural school until 1941, it then housed a Sunday school for 25 years. Restored in 1976 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Today is serves as an example for area elementary schools for field trips, providing students with an experience of a day in a one room school. Romantic notions of the one room school became known to a whole new generation in television programs such as The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie.
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