More from my May 17 ride to Moscow.

Almost any excuse will do for a stop along the way. This old schoolhouse in Albion Township caught my attention. It doesn’t seem to have been converted into a residence, like so many old one-room schools have.

But do the two front doors mean this was a two-room school? It’s not as large a building as the two-room school I attended in rural Nebraska. I’ll call it a one-room school.

This schoolyard still has the frame from a swingset and teeter-totter. That’s not something one sees very often. But judging by the grass growing in the yard, it hasn’t been used as a playground for a long time.

It doesn’t seem to be a museum, either, but somebody has kept it nicely painted.

I wasted some time looking for information about it in the county histories, but didn’t find any. Its location is shown on the 1873 county atlas, though. I’ve circled the location in red. My route for the day is also shown in red. The roads are all ones I had never been on before, even though it’s in my home county.