Category:District No. 48 School (Collinwood Township, Minnesota)

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 96001612.

Collinwood Village was one of several small settlements that came into being between 1856, when the county was created, and 1870, when the railroad came through from Minneapolis and St. Paul, bypassing Collinwood. The village declined, and the school is one of only two properties that remain from the pre-railroad period. School District No. 48 (Collinwood) was organized in 1870, and by 1875 there were more than 40 rural schools in the county. This number later grew to 94. There were eight rural school districts in Collinwood Township at the time of its highest population (1900), and this was still true in 1941. The Collin- wood School building, in which school was taught until 1961, is one of an unknown and dwindling number of extant rural school facilities in Meeker County, but it is the only such property in Collinwood Township with both structural and locational integrity.* The Collinwood School also relates to the Minnesota statewide historic context: Railroads and Agricultural Develop- ment, 1870-1940.

For more information on the school: http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/nomination/96001612.pdf

Address of District No. 48 School (Collinwood Township): 17757 745th Ave., Dassel (off Cty Rd 6 approx. 1 mile south of U.S. Hwy. 12)