This over 500 page book will consist of the account of how the rural one room schools began, about the superintendents and other history of how they helped in furthering education in Hancock County. This volume is comprised of 24 townships in the county with a total of 169 rural one room schools. Each school will include names of teachers, surnames of families who attended the school, photos depicting life in those years to help visualize the setting of education from 1830 to 1960 in Hancock County. Some of these began to consolidate over the years to become other influential rural school districts.