None of Bureau County’s almost 200 one-room schoolhouses was very big.

But some of them were even smaller than the others, and closed their doors long, long ago. Consequently, very few people still remember them.

“I just felt bad when I saw all of these other schools because nobody will ever know about the Dodge School,” said Harold Stone, referring to the ongoing series on one-room schoolhouses in the Bureau County Republican. “There’s only one other person that I know for sure in Walnut that would know about the Dodge school, but the rest? Everybody’s gone.”