The Semmes Heritage Park
  • Mission
  • History
  • Blog
  • Contact

Semmes Heritage Park -Home of the Oldest CONTINUOUS in use School in Alabama ! 

1/31/2017

0 Comments

 
The school bell is still ringing at the 1902 one room Semmes School, an Alabama Landmark as  the oldest continuous in use school in the state of Alabama,


​ Children on field trips time travel to 1902 to experience a hands on history lesson in reading writing and arithmetic, and learn of life in the olden days when children had chores to do before and after school.  It was good to work, because that was just the way life was. 
 
The first thing you did when you got up was to run outside to the outhouse. Then before breakfast you did your morning chores.  You had eggs to gather, chickens to feed and water. The cow had to be milked.  To get water you had to pump water and carry it in a bucket to where it was needed. When you were done with your chores  you had breakfast and got ready for school.  You walked to school or rode in a wagon, but mostly you walked.   When you got home from school you had chores to do all over again.

 Children on field trips experience pumping water. washing clothes on a rub board, looking in a outhouse.  (modern restrooms are in the chapel) A peak in the cabin reveals a rope bed and items from yesteryear's and how it must to have been to live in a one room cabin.

 Demonstrations of the comparison of simple tools to modern day tools are observed.  A hand power grist mill shows the making of grits, corn meal and biddy feed.
 
It is always amazing when we come to the end of the day and I tell the children we have to time travel back to the current year at the outcry of NO, I want to stay here!

Even in today's modern technology there is something to be said about the olden day ways of learning,  It is interesting to note that many tried and true old education concepts are being once again revisited.  New methods are not always better.  Sometimes, as the old saying goes "We have thrown the baby out with the bathwater." 

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Field Trips and Tours are scheduled by appointment. 1-251-649-0270
Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Semmes​

    Preserving  our History
     Looking to the Future
    ​Jeanette Lyles Byrd

    ​Be sure to check out the archives!

    Picture

    Archives

    January 2023
    November 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Mission
  • History
  • Blog
  • Contact