The Honey Valley School

The Honey Valley schoolhouse – district #56 - was organized on March 25, 1869.  It was located about a mile south of Tonganoxie on the Gordon Harmon Farm -near Leavenworth County Road 1 and U. S. Highway 24-40.  The original building burned down in 1915.  The district voted bonds for $1,200.00 to erect a new school building on June 21, 1916. This building now sits at the Historical Site being moved there in 1991. The Honey Valley School is a typical one-room schoolhouse where one teacher taught the three "R's" to all eight grades.   On September 25, 1999 an open house was held at the school to celebrate the eight years of renovation done by volunteer labor. The Honey Valley School building is available free to educators who want their students to experience living history. As many as three generations of Tonganoxians went to this school.