Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . A32 GREENE COUXTV, MISSOURI. would have treated with the contempt that it deserves, and the familiesin the little lug cabins were of good old fashioned proportions. So in the autumn of iS31, the project of Iniilding a school house, andfinding a teacher to instruct the children, a project that had been frequentlydiscussed even before that date, took definite shape. A site for the building-was selected in section 22. township 29, range 22. This site was ab
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . A32 GREENE COUXTV, MISSOURI. would have treated with the contempt that it deserves, and the familiesin the little lug cabins were of good old fashioned proportions. So in the autumn of iS31, the project of Iniilding a school house, andfinding a teacher to instruct the children, a project that had been frequentlydiscussed even before that date, took definite shape. A site for the building-was selected in section 22. township 29, range 22. This site was about halfa mile west of the present city limits of Spring-field and was probably on apart of what is now the Charles Holland dairy farm. Here one morning thefathers of the settlement gathered: some cut and hauled the logs, othersnotched them and laid them u]) in the appr(n-ed col) house fashion, some. SPRING. C^SS TOWNSHIP. ;split clap boards from straight grained blocks of oak, for the roof, some^plit and hewed the puncheons for the floor, and soon there stood, readyfor its high mission, the first school house in Greene county. For windowsit had square holes cut through the log walls, with neither sash, glass orshutter. For seats it had split saplings with sections of other and smallersaplings driven into augur holes to serve as legs. To save labor there werebut three legs furnished to each bench, two at one end and one at tjie for desks, there were none and the complement of books comprised straycopies of Pikes arithn-ietic, a few odd readers and some of the old blue backedAVebster spelling books. But with all its limitations, it was a school. GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 433 In this primitive building Uncle Joe Rountree, of blessed memory,taught the first school of Greene county. One who was a scholar in thatschool, John Tsliller. has left on record that the pupils wer
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