The Elk Township Historical Society invites you to our first Open House of the 2024 season on Saturday, April 13, from 1- 4 PM at the former Scandia one-room school. The 1870s wooden one-room school is restored to its original appearance, including school room furniture and the painted wooden black board (slate was too expensive). Sit at an original desk, write on a lap slate with chalk and experience how students learned in school decades ago. Over a century of enrollment records are available for reference, including those from eleven other one-room schools that were located in Elk Township. The school operated until 1999.

Our museum across the hallway has food preparation and other hand tools used on the homestead, genealogical references including township families by road name, many photographs and much more relating to life on early homesteads. Learn about family operated dairy farms, methods of preserving food, hand-made leather shoes, and the Scandia Coal Mine.

We have a pavilion and playground at the school where you can bring your lunch and kids can play.