The first District 3 schoolhouse in Adams Township was a log building “up on the hill on Art Hennings’ property¹.” Around 1854, a frame structure was completed next to the Dunkard (German Baptist) Church that still stands on New Columbus Road south of what’s now East County Road 500-South, an area sometimes referred to as Old Columbus. Accordingly, the schoolhouse was known as the Dunkard school². In 1877, a brick schoolhouse was built in what was called the “Fesler District³” that measured 23×38 feet and cost $1,100. That school, the one that still stands, was an exact replica of Adams Township’s District 8: Collier schoolhouse.