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Here we have a great image of the Volga School in eastern South Dakota. Volga is a small town city in Brookings County, South Dakota. Volga was founded by the Western Town Lot Company by Col. Arthur Jacoby (1879). It was originally named 'Bandy Town' after the Bandy family, early settlers there. The railroad the next year assigned the name 'Volga', after the Volga River in Russia (1880). We thoght it might be due to Volga Germans settling in the area, but that apparently was not the case. The town is mentioned in the Laura Ingalls Wilder novel The Long Winter, the chapter was 'Pa Goes to Volga'. (This was part of The Little House on the Prarie series.) We have found a great image of the school, we think in the 1910s. You get a sence of how flat the prarie was. The school was larger than the one room school described in the books. Volga was a small town, but it was a town. Unfortunately we get only a limited idea of schoolwear becase the focus is on the school building.
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