District No. 35, Basswood Grove School

1854: District established and school built.
1858: The name Basswood Grove is given to the school.
1876: A new schoolhouse is built.
1950s: Schoolhouse is closed.
Interesting Facts:
- The teacher's desk and stool when the school was built in 1854 cost 50 cents each!
- School was very parent-involved.
- The school lasted for four months in the summer, and four months in the winter, with grades 1-8.
- Enrollment in 1898: 28 students. In 1938: 11 students.
- When the new school building was completed in 1876, the old building was sold for $25.25 and remodeled as a kitchen.

Ah, those tall and husky farmer boys
All week might plow and thresh,
But on Friday nights they would all
Dress up and come to spend their cash.

Ah, those pretty buxom farmer girls
Would have their work all done,
Be decked in ribbons, lace and curls,
And to be there to join the fun."
-Auld Memories, by Mrs. M.O. O'Neil from St. Croix Falls.