Iowa Rural Schools Museum

Stories of the Adams and Cook Ranches, the Rural Schools Museum and Peterson Pioneer Home, the beginnings of Cracker Jack, the Adams Bank. Surprises: Memorial Walk, the Barn Quilts, Prairie Pedlar. Check out the Odebolt Day Tour available on our website, which includes this authentic 1883 school with original artifacts from country schools around Iowa, from the 1880s through the 1950s. Also open by appointment.