Read time: 2 min.

In Randolph County, Green Township’s first District 2 schoolhouse seems to have been built in 1860¹. The institution was relocated to State Road 28² at some point after 1882, where it stood on the land of George Wise³.

The school’s colloquial name, Boots, doesn’t have a funny story behind it, although I could dream up several! The building’s common name came from the man who originally deeded the township its land, David W. Boots⁴. 

Along with the schoolhouses of Districts 3 and 4, the District 2 school closed in 1911. Its students were sent to Green Township’s consolidated school a mile south, which opened a year earlier. A 1912 lawsuit filed in hope of reopening the Boots schoolhouse was unsuccessful⁴. 

Today, the District 2: Boots school is Green Township’s last remaining one-room schoolhouse. It’s currently a home. 

Sources Cited
1 Randolph County Office of Information & GIS Services. (2022). Parcel ID: 68-06-02-400-012.000-003. Randolph County, Indiana Assessor. map, Winchester, IN.
2 Griffing, B. N. (1874). Ward Township. An atlas of Randolph County, Indiana . map, Philadelphia, PA; Griffing, Gordon, & Company.
3 Tucker, E. (1882). History of Randolph County, Indiana. book. Chicago, IL; A.L. Kingman.
4 (See footnote 2).
4 Hinshaw, G. (2008). A History of Education in Randolph County, Indiana. Retrieved February 13, 2022.