23rd Iowa Country School Conference

Located at The Sawmill Museum 2231 Grant St Clinton Iowa

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Details

Schedule 

$60 for All Two Days
$45 for Friday Only
​$15 for Saturday Only 
Pay by Check. Made Payable to The Sawmill Museum
Mail to PO Box 3191 Clinton Iowa 52732

Lodging & Clinton Facts

Hampton Inn 2781 Wild Rose Drive Clinton, Iowa
(563)-243-5555
Discounted rates for persons attending the 23rd Iowa Country School Preservation Conference. The hotel is located off Highway 30 near Wild Rose Casino.​

 Friday September 22
8:30am: Registration
9am: Opening Remarks
9:30am: Presentations & Silent Auction
Noon: Lunch & Tour Sawmill Museum
1:15pm: Presentations 
3:30pm: Silent Auction Closes
5:30pm: Dinner at Curtis Mansion 

Saturday September 23
8:45: Board bus at Hampton Inn and tour historic sites in Clinton
10am: Drive to LeClaire and tour Buffalo Bill Museum and visit one-room school at the Scott County Fairgrounds
12:30pm: Lunch visit at the Putnam
2pm: View the new Fourth Wall Films doc: Resurrecting Forest Grove School
3:15pm: Visit Forest Grove School
4:00pm: Tour ends

Topics 

• ​How Clinton became the sawmill capital of America
• Using resources at libraries to learn about country school history
• How awards of merit were used to motivate country school students
• Using paintings to create an interest in country school preservation
• Fundraising ideas to help support country school preservation Country school preservation and programming from New Hampshire
• New books about country school preservation
• Working with teachers to get students interested in learning about country schools in their area
• Why Iowa led the nation in the number of operating one-room schools in the early 1900s
• Using a preserved country school as a writing lab for would be authors
• Why and how to build a historical village complex in Iowa