c. 1911.
Lyons School District 106: One Teacher, One Room, One Box Stove
Making It Home
The class picture was taken c. 1910 – third from left is Janet Sneddon.
A school was established in 1866 for students at the western edge of Lake Forest near the current intersection of Riverwoods and Shagbark roads. It was on the property of the Lyons family and known as Lyons School District 106 (later Vernon Township School).
Until the early 1900s, children in west Lake Forest went to school in one-room schoolhouses. Students, ranging in age from 5 to 20, were all taught by the same teacher. They sat on board benches around a box stove, which heated the room. Some children, needed on the farm in the spring and fall, only attended in the winter.