North of Palmyra’s little one-room schoolhouse, residents began building a lumber Amusement Hall on February 10, 1900, completed it exactly one month later, and held a dance there that evening. Heated by a potbellied stove and lacking indoor plumbing, with outhouses to the east, the hall served for several years as a place for church meetings and social activities including basketball, wrestling, and dances, and remained in use until 1933. Palmyra’s first school was built in the Palmyra Fort, and its second school, an adobe brick building with a rock foundation measuring twenty-four feet by thirty-two feet, was built across the street in the early 1890s. Its entrance was a six-foot hallway with coat hooks around the wall and a shelf above for dinner buckets. Inside were four rows of double seats, with one grade in each row—first through fourth—and one teacher taught all four grades. A potbellied stove stood in the northeast corner, a blackboard was on the east wall, a flowing well was nearby, horses were tied to a hitching post, some children arrived in a covered wagon, and this school was replaced in 1920.