hello welcome to Kate's Ag today grandpa and i are going to be doing a video of the old school
house where my grandma used to go to school yes the diamond valley schoolhouse diamond
valley schoolhouse was where all the kids who lived on farms out here would go to school
right grandpa this right here is where all the kids used to play baseball so this was the old
baseball diamond for the school house that's right over there that we're going to now so i thought
that would be a very cool thing to mention grandpa and i are here at the diamond valley schoolhouse
if you see these cement things here oh yeah see that's where this is where their playground
used to be this is where the swings used to be there's they tore it out and there's one there
and then the teach ridge used to be the tea tree used to be right up here about maybe
7 500 feet and they tore that down they did it when they built a new highway out here years back
the right away it was on the right away so they moved the schoolhouse from
over here over to there we just put a new roof on this schoolhouse just about a week ago
the roof looks fantastic but we boarded up all the windows because kids start breaking the
windows out oh that's terrible yeah i know but that's what people do you want to go inside now
yes let's go inside okay i think dad's also going to come with the light well let's go and see what
we can find in there anyway and here the sign says diamond valley 1911 number 66. that's the school
the number 66 is the school district it was in yeah that's the piano are some of these original
school chairs they are the original school chairs all of them i think so the ceilings
are awesome very tall oh jesus most of the windows are broke i didn't know that there's a blackboard
well this guy's got a bunch of junk in there this was the kitchen
there's the stove there used to be a basement and that's where where the door was to the basement oh
okay the floor is awesome too oh yeah there's been nothing done here when was the last time that the
schoolhouse was used not necessarily for school but even after the people stopped coming to school
here because there wasn't enough kids and they went to the town nearby you used it for different
things we used to have a farmers union meetings out here then they used to have dances and they
had a years ago they used to have a preacher he was a traveling preacher and we'd have church
service here here and then he would if he stayed he'd stay with a different farmer every night they
had card parties they used to have card parties here use it for kind of a small community hall
there wasn't too many people lived out in and my grandma billy lou used to play marbles at school
oh yeah she had a whole count she was a better marble player than any of the boys
how was quite a black boy that's a very long blackboard oh those are slugger chairs in here
or you can have this one well that don't show enough light does it that does a little bit
but then you can take these out and do this action the windows are very large and beautiful
well so you can read your school books i really ain't much more you can take a picture of well
this is a big part of history isn't it grandpa yeah it's a big part of history is right so all of
the children of the people who homesteaded would come here to school and there used to be many of
the little school houses so this wasn't the only one in this area right grandpa yeah that's true
what were the other school houses called they all had different names well they had a schoolhouse
down the road here about four or five miles and that was called a middle school and if you go
farther east it was the promised land school and they're all gone now yes so this is one of
the only ones left and i was told at one time north of here there used to be a maori school
but i've never seen or anybody ever showed me where it was at but it probably was down there
closer to the teton river how would the kids get to school well they'd have to walk or ride a horse
and they'd have to bring him in the team years ago we used to put some christmas decorations
outside and there's a tree and there's a there's a wreath right here we just had a wreath on the
outside of the school they took it down when they painted it did they have some rain here
that they stole or something they had what some rain gear outside or something electric rain here
oh yeah we had uh reindeer that moved and stuff like that and
somebody stole them and there used to be a bell on the school house that's actually in the town
now what else do you know about the schoolhouse grandpa well that's about all i know if we could
find somebody that knew more about it i don't know this is a picture of the students who went to this
one-room schoolhouse and this school house was actually featured in national geographic so maybe
i can find that and put it up on the screen here which is very cool door so this is the outside
of the school house up there is where the valve would have been i wouldn't take a picture of that
yes here's what the diamond valley schoolhouse looks like on the outside and that right there
is the door we went in it's got its new roof and it's by the 15 bins that's that thing over there
that's where the toilets used to be oh okay right over there up there is where the valve used to be
which we'll look at in town and then that area would go to the basement
yeah that's where the kitchen used to be yes and the really cute old school house
i think it was built in 1911. now grandpa have you ever used the school house for anything since it
was moved no not since we moved it here no well we used to have farmers union meetings in it
was that after you moved it yeah yeah we used it it was used some a little bit after
that they had we had have a farmer union meeting and then they'd have card parties
and they had uh right now we're going for a walk around the schoolhouse and here is the back side
with all of the stuff in it which used to be where all the cooking was done which is pretty awesome
and it's also the side that the 15 bins are on so you would have seen this in a lot of my videos
here's where the door to the basement would have been which there's not a basement anymore after
it got moved like my grandpa said so it's kind of been used for a lot of things since it wasn't
a schoolhouse with kind of a town hall and it's just a great piece of history it was on the cover
of national geographic so i'll try and find that as well oh my goodness the drone is following us
as you can see there is the drone
okay now we're still walking now we're on the other side
which would be the road kind of by the gravel road
we're coming towards around the front which is where the door is in here we can come in
here to break the wind an awesome bird's nest comes with it here's the drone again
that was kind of a fun walk around the schoolhouse i've gotten a lot of requests to
do this video really great one because it's an awesome piece of history and i love history so
you love history too comment down below and also comment down below if you enjoyed the video
this is super fun to make now i'll walk over here and we'll say hello to my dad here's dad
flying the drone would you like to say hello hi here's what the drone sees it's kind of cool
do you have any fun stories of the school house that you remember grandma telling you
well i used to go to sunday school here for a while and it was okay we had used to have
a swing set straight out from the building but the cement things are over here yes over here i
showed you that earlier because they moved the building back because the highway was coming
through and they needed to move the school house that's very cool how did you enjoy sunday school
well it was okay there was a lot of kids you know i mean kids
it was exciting back then because you know you lived on the farm there were no kids yes exactly
my grandma used to live over here in the house my great grandpa who homesteaded our farm in 1912
built and she'd come to school here at this schoolhouse they used to play marbles out here
they'd draw a circle with a stick and put a bunch of little marbles in and if you knocked the marble
out with your marble then you got to keep their marble and when we were little kids my mother
had coffee cans full of marbles because she used to beat everybody at school oh yes in the attic
just tons of them because she was the best marble player right now my dad's going to land the drone
oh he wants to take off that's kind of scary
so all of the people homesteading would have sent their children to these school houses yeah oh yeah
the school house that was closest to them how many of them do you think there would have been maybe
three or four yeah about three or four of them is this the only one left this is the only one
left that i know about here here's the bell that used to be on the school house original 1917
original 1917 diamond valley school bell well that's very cool grandpa so this used to be on
the school house well that is pretty cool grandpa now we're doing our week checkup and it's had a
little bit of a tough time so i'm in the same area as i was not in the last minute video but i did
video this week here so it's looking a little bit rough here's some green wheat here it is
as you can see now this is winter wheat and this variety is war horse it's really good for baking
here's some of it here it definitely looks a little worse it's had a hard time with all of
the wind we've had and you would know that from a couple of my videos i did of the equipment tour
haven't watched my seating 2020 video you should definitely go and check that out
it looks a little bit greener down here my dad said and try and not walk on any wheat
because it doesn't seem to be that party yet
oh here's some green wheat beautiful montana skies it truly is gorgeous oh my gosh how funny is that
oh it gets even greener over here
oh my gosh this is big wheat
it's a draw so that means there's moisture here and the wind doesn't hurt this wheat
nearly as bad this rock this is a pretty cool rock oh this one's pretty cool too
oh my goodness there's lots of cool
rocks
this wheat looks a lot better it is a miracle we have some pretty harsh
winters in montana and like my dad was saying it is a miracle it can live through the winter
and this time last year we would have had snow like up to here it was so deep
well a pretty successful day collecting rocks and the wii looks a lot better here
so that's very good look at all this week here
thank you so much for watching i really hope you enjoyed the video
i had a lot of fun filming it it's just an amazing
really dad
are you is there a snake
that was very scary and not very nice dad what do you have to say for yourself
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