Construction on the Little Red School House was begun in 1868 and the school opened in 1869 as District # 6. Classes were held in the building until 1948. The school house was built from locally made-bricks.

The Little Red School House is now a working museum used by area school districts. Students are able to experience a full day of school as it was in the late 19th Century.

The school features a variety of period artifacts, including a pot-bellied stove, single and double desks with ironwork sides, an original school house clock, a teacher's desk from the 1880's, an adjustable clerk's recitation benches(which may have been originally to the building), circa 1886 pump organ, slate blackboards, and a "Chautauqua Desk."