Nemaha County Schools

Nemaha County, Nebraska

History

"The education of their children was an important precept to Nebraska's earliest settlers. There was no law to provide it, so the people of the communities organized and financed their own schools. In early 1855, a school was organized on McKissick Island and held classes. That same summer the children of London attended a short session of school. By fall of 1855, Brownville had a school which operated for a few months. From this beginning, districts were formed until there were 82 school districts in Nemaha County.  Methods of travel made it necessary to organize a school in every four square mile area. The one-room school was a part of the educational background of most of Nemaha County's children for many years."
Ref: Nemaha County Book Committee, Compiler,  A History of Nemaha County, Peru: Nemaha Valley Museum. 1987. 

This book also contains a history of many of those rural schools by district, arranged by precinct.

For interesting memories of School District 6 in the 1920's. Memories

The Nemaha School system today

Today, after much school consolidation which closed the rural schools. Children are transported by bus to schools located in towns.

 

Aspinwall Precinct Larkin School	Auburn (Douglas Twp) District 6 (near? Auburn) from 1920's Cochran School (2 m. S, 1 m. E of Auburn) Fairview School (4.5 m. E, 1.5 m. S of Auburn) District 20 Grand Prairie School (1 m. N, 2 m. W of Auburn) Highland School (4 m. N, 1 m. E. of Auburn) Calvert School (N St. & 21 St.) Sheridan School (N St. & Central Av) Auburn Jr. School Auburn High School
Bedford Precinct (Howe Station)
Brock Brock High School	Brownville In the fall of 1855, Brownville operated a school for a few months. 1 Happy Hollow School (2.75 m. SW of Brownville) Locust Groove School (3.5 miles W. of Brownville)
Febing	Glen Rock old Glen Rock school? Linden School (1 m. W, 1.5 m. S of Glenrock)
Hillsdale	Howe (Bedford Twp) ?
Johnson ? school	Julian ? school
London Precinct In the summer of 1855, children of London attended a short session of school. 1 Pleasant Ridge (3.5 m. S, 1.5 m. W of Peru)	Nemaha Nemaha High School District 35 District 36 Maple Grove School (2.5 m. NW of Nemaha)
Peru (Peru Twp) District 3 School (Park St. & 8th St.) PSC Lab School (5th St. on campus) Honey Creek School ?	Rohrs (Washington Twp) Hickory Groove School (1.5 m. S, 0.5 m. E. of Rohrs)
St. Deroin	St. Frederick
McKissick Island In early 1855, a school was organized on McKissick Island and held classes. 1	Other Communities
Precincts/Townships: Aspinwall, Bedford* (R14E-T4N), Benton* (R12-13E-T4N), Brownville* (R15E-T5N), Douglas* (R14E-T5N), Glen Rock* (R14E-T6N), Lafayette*(R12E, T6N), London, McKissick's Island* (R15-16E-T6-7N), Nemaha* (R15-16E-T4N), Peru* (R15E-T6N), St. Deroin, Washington* (R12-13E-T5N) * modern townships	References: 1 A History of Nemaha County, 1987. compiled by the Nemaha County Book Committee, sponsored by the Nemaha Valley Museum. 2 Precision Mapping Ver 2.0, Ver. 3.0. 3 William Cutler. "Nemaha County," History of Nebraska, Andreas Publisher. 1882. 4 Personal recollection of Emmett Mason 5 "Memories" 6 Yearbooks of Auburn High School, 1949, 1950