Monroe City School was a rural country school district on KK Road west of Monroe City. The building was constructed in 1918 on land purchased from Gustav Hirsch, and increasing enrollment later required a second building and another teacher. The school closed in 1956, with Eliot Altes and Thelma Hess as the last teachers. Harold Baum, who later became superintendent of the Valmeyer District, had been a student there and later taught at the school. Since 2012, third grade students from Valmeyer School have visited Monroe City School for Little House on the Prairie Day, with members of the Valmeyer Community Heritage Society giving tours and helping students understand life in a one-room rural schoolhouse with mixed grade levels. After many years of care by the Steinman family and a change in ownership, Melvin and Jackie Allscheid donated the building to the Society in 2011, and it was moved from a creekside pasture in Monroe City to its current location in Valmeyer in about four hours. After several years of renovation, it opened to the public in 2016 while hosting a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit. The large bell nearby was first installed at St. John UCC Church in Valmeyer in 1914, was replaced in 1967 by the bell from the closed Harrisonville UCC Church, was purchased by Twyla Miller Luhr, displayed in her yard for many years, and after the deaths of Alois and Twyla Luhr was donated to the Society by the Luhr family. Following the Mississippi River Flood of August 1993, which caused widespread damage in Valmeyer, village officials and residents decided after study, deliberation, and town meeting discussion to relocate a major portion of the community to higher ground. Planning began in September 1993, the Walter and Dorothy Stemler family agreed to sell part of their farm for the new site, ground was broken in December 1993, construction began in 1994, and the first families moved into their homes in 1995. Businesses including Mar Graphics, Mike's Service and Convenience, the Corner Pub, and First Bank soon opened there, Valmeyer School began classes in its new facility in 1996, and all three village churches built new facilities and welcomed their congregations to relocated Valmeyer. Because much of the original town's physical memory had been lost, a group was formed to preserve the physical and cultural heritage of the Valmeyer area, leading to the creation of the Valmeyer Community Heritage Society.