Dinsmore Township School District No. 4 was formed in 1865 after the township’s board of education decided to build a school at the center of every four sections of land, or every four square miles, so children could attend school close to home and receive a public education through the eighth grade. The township created nine districts for children of white households and a tenth for children of African American families. On June 11, 1866, the Dinsmore Township School Board bought land from George Wenger near the intersection of Ohio Route 274 and Wenger Road for the District No. 4 school, where a hewed log and framed one-room building was soon erected and 56 children began attending in 1866. In 1870 the board ended segregation, and in 1875 it closed the school for African American children. A brick one-room school was built in 1887, and Dinsmore Township School No. 4 educated students from 1866 to 1925, a span of 59 years. On September 28, 1926, the Botkins Special School District sold the schoolhouse to John Wenger for $200. On April 22, 2010, Bill and Bonnie Elsass had the school moved one and a half miles to its present location, where it was restored for public visits.