The August 4, 1942 edition of The True Republican published a graph depicting the number of the one room schools in the United States. The eight most populous states were listed with Illinois having highest number of these rural schools with a total of 9,710. Of the eight states, Massachusetts had the fewest number of rural schoolhouses with a count of 238.
Seventy-eight years later, six of these states still remain as the top eight most populated with Michigan and Massachusetts replaced by Florida and Georgia. Since this graph was published, rural schoolhouses continued to consolidate and within a 10 year period the majority of rural schools ceased operating.
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