Before 1950 in most rural parts of the U.S., children usually walked to country schools rather than riding buses to town schools. These schools were generally one-room wood-framed buildings about 24 by 36 feet, with a front entrance, many windows for light, and a wood or coal stove in the middle of the floor. One teacher taught kindergarten through the 6th grade to perhaps 15 to 30 children and also served as custodian, while boys stocked the stove and girls helped with cleaning. Restrooms were separate outhouses behind the school, and water came from an outdoor hand pump, carried inside for washing and drinking. A cupola on the roof held the school bell, rung by a pupil to signal the start of the day. In the Otisville area, country schools stood mainly along Irish Road and Henderson Roads about every 3 miles from Lake Road south to Stanley Road, with exceptions including Miller School at M-15 and Mount Morris Road, Whitesburg School on Vassar near Dodge Road, and Delmar School on Willard Road. Some buildings still survive as rebuilt houses. Earlier schools also included a small school built by lumbermen in the 1850s on the south end of town and moved in the 1860s one mile north to Huntons Mill, and a Weeks District school building moved into town around 1912 along Beecher Street to ease overcrowding.