CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - 
Pupils are to Help in Providing Marker for First School
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Cedar County News 1-23-1930

Schools will help mark Historic Spot

Pupils are to Help in Providing Marker for First School

            School Children of Cedar county are to have a part in the 
erecting of a marker at the site of the first schoolhouse in Cedar 
county, a project planned by the Wynot Home Culture Club, the teachers 
and children are being asked to contribute at least two cents or more 
to the fund.

            Contributions from the school folks are asked to be sent 
to the office of Miss Schweirn the county Superintendent by February 1. 
It is hoped that every teacher and every boy and girl in the county 
will give the small amount that is asked , as the marking of the 
beginning of the county’s present splendid school system is an 
important historical event. 

            The site of the county’s first school will be marked by 
having the largest boulder left near Wynot during the glacial period 
moved to the site. Upon the boulder will be placed some sort of marker 
of inscription designating the location of the county’s first school.

            The first school in the county was located near the Bow 
Valley mills and it’s first teacher was Mrs. Anna Felber, now of 
Hartington. Mrs. Felber recalls that classes were held only in the 
summer time, as the youngsters had to work at planting and harvesting 
the crops. School was held in a rude log structure, the first sessions 
being in the summer of 1868.