Where Community and Learning Met: Rural Education in Park County

The history of Park County schools leaves a legacy of learning. This exhibit explores narratives, memories, and materials of rural education in Park County, CO, exploring how schools evolved from one room schoolhouses. Items are mainly from the 1800s-1900s and include oral archives, annual reports, photographs, and correspondence, among others. Highlights include details on one of the oldest continuously operating school buildings in Colorado, the Fairplay School (known as Edith Teter Elementary School today), photographs of the Tarryall Schoolhouse (now part of the National Registry of Historic Places), and rich correspondence, describing both the struggles and successes of rural education.