Woodhull Township was organized in 1838 and named for brothers John and Josephus Woodhull, who had begun purchasing land in this area in 1837. In 1895 the township built a hall northeast of here, but by the 1960s that building was too small for government needs. In 1962 the township bought this two-room school from Woodhull Township School District Number Six and moved the township offices here, while the school moved to a larger building. Later, the wall between the former classrooms was moved to create a small office and a larger meeting space, and in 2000 an addition on the rear provided new offices, while the original interior became a single room for meetings and community events such as parties, musical performances, and reunions. John Peter Shaft founded the village of Shaftsburg, which Lyman Mason platted in 1876 on lands owned by the Shaft family. Other families lived on nearby farms, and during harvest children aided their parents with farmwork; when they were not needed at home, most attended a one-room school about a quarter mile west of here, just north of Beard Road. By the early 1880s enrollment had outgrown that building, so in 1884 Harry and Matilda Matteson sold this land to Woodhull School District Number Six, which built this two-room schoolhouse in 1885. In any given year, two to four teachers, some of them Shaft descendants, taught fifty to seventy students in kindergarten through eighth grades, and later through high school, in subjects including penmanship, government, geography, algebra, history, and domestic art.