Big Bend Rural School is a historic

one-room school One-room schoolhouses, or One-room schools, have been commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, and Spa ...

building located near Steelville,

Crawford County, Missouri Crawford County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 Census, the population was 23,056. Its county seat is Steelville. The county was organized in 1829 and is named after U.S. Senator Wil ...

. It was built in 1893, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building on a native

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foundation. It measures 20 feet by 25 feet and has a gable roof. Big Bend School closed in 1949 and is owned by the Crawford County Historical Society.] (includes 2 photos from 1978) It was listed on the

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in 1978.

References

One-room schoolhouses in Missouri School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri School buildings completed in 1893 Buildings and structures in Crawford County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Missouri {{CrawfordCountyMO-NRHP-stub