Postcard with an image of Waconia public school in 1900. Created by the St. Paul Souvenir Company in St. Paul. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of Zoar public school (District #20), c.1895. Teacher Vena Abbott stands with her students outside the school building. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of Mayer public school (District #73), c.1895. Teacher Thomas Burns stands with his students outside the one-room schoolhouse. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of Waconia public school (District #44) with students and teachers, c.1892. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of the interior of Mud Lake School (District #33) in rural Watertown taken during the late 1880s. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photographic portrait of Susan Hazeltine, the first schoolteacher in Carver County, c.1855. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of the first schoolhouse in Carver County (in Chanhassen Township), c.1855. At the time, the school's teacher was Susan Hazeltine. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Side view of St. Bernard's Church in Cologne taken in the spring of 1999. The church's school can be seen on the right side of the image. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Photograph of students gathered in front of St. Peter's Lutheran School near Watertown, c.1920s. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.