Buckeye, Colorado

Colorado

The school in Buckeye, Colorado had a stable on the grounds, because students rode in on horseback.

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The school at Buckeye had a stable on its grounds. Students rode in on horseback, so the horses needed somewhere to stand. It opened in 1926 and taught children through eighth grade. Two teachers ran it, and they lived in a basement apartment in the building itself. That was unusual. Elsewhere in rural Larimer County, teachers boarded with a local family. In 1960 the district consolidated and closed the school, and the children were bused twelve miles south to Waverly. The building did not empty out. The district let the community keep using it as long as they maintained it. Seven years later, twenty-six local families and a 4-H club called the Buckeye Buck-N-Ears organized and bought the property outright. They renamed it the Buckeye Community Club. In 2008 the old schoolhouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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A stable was located on the school grounds for the use of the students who arrived on horseback.

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